Chesterton

Famous quotes containing the word chesterton:

    There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)