All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either. Gilbert K. Chesterton More Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton More Quotes From Gilbert K. Chesterton It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride. Gilbert K. Chesterton pride humility impossible Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. Gilbert K. Chesterton pleasure pain doe You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion. Gilbert K. Chesterton beard passion truth Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in. Gilbert K. Chesterton wise doe men Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man. Gilbert K. Chesterton be-careful madness men The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right. Gilbert K. Chesterton reformers We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening. Gilbert K. Chesterton castles contentment joy In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd. Gilbert K. Chesterton legends sublime men Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing. Gilbert K. Chesterton realism reason lost But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty. Gilbert K. Chesterton progress nice people Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality. Gilbert K. Chesterton romance things-in-life reality It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad. Gilbert K. Chesterton men book people What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost. Gilbert K. Chesterton detachment moments thinking Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers. Gilbert K. Chesterton bored quality sight I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne. Gilbert K. Chesterton thrones rebel stories The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God. Gilbert K. Chesterton one-love god-love long I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy. Gilbert K. Chesterton lasts littles trying And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators. Gilbert K. Chesterton saws vision monsters if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small. Gilbert K. Chesterton ifs men world Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe. Gilbert K. Chesterton essence long art
