GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON or G.K. CHESTERTON, British Essayist, Novelist, Critic, Biographer, Shortstory writer, Poet, Journalist and Activist , Was Born This Day , May 29 In 1874 In England.
Famous For His Sharp Intellect , Readymade Wit , Contagious Sense of Humor and Brilliant Analytical Mind, Chesterton Was A Very Prolific English Author In The First Half of 20th-Cent. Who Had Penned On Countless Subjects And In Almost Every Genre of Writing !
Today He Would Have Been 139 !
Let's Enjoy Ten Of His Quotes On This Occasion !
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G.K. CHESTERTON QUOTES :-
(1.) ''Gratitude is the mother of all the virtues.''
(2.) ''One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.''
(3.) ''There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.''
(4.) ''A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.''
(5.) ''A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.''
(6.) ''Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.''
(7.) ''One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.''
(8.) ''Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.''
(9.) ''Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.''
(10.) ''The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.''
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