Quotes by G. K.

Chesterton

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Parodia spaniosa

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Lobivia tiegeliana

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

Echinocereus pectinatus

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Rebutia poecilantha

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Astrophytum super kabuto

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Cochemiea poselgeri

Discocactus horstii

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Matucana krahnii

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

Escobaria wissmannii

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Oroya peruviana

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Echinocereus klapperi

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Astrophytum coahuilense

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Echinocereus reichenbachii

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Escobaria minima

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Discocactus pugionacanthus

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Rebutia pallida

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

Neowerdermannia vorwerkii

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

Oroya peruviana

The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.

Lobivia peclardiana