Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. G
  4. Gilbert K. Chesterton
  5. House

Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes about House

All Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes Adventure Age Aging Alcohol Anarchy Anger Apology Appearance Appreciation Architecture Arguing Army Art Assumption Atheism Atheist Attitude Authority Balance Beer Belief Birth Boat Boredom Buddhism Business Character Charity Chess Children Choices Christ Christianity Christmas Church Coincidence Common Sense Community Confession Contentment Country Courage Crime Criticism Culture Darkness Democracy Desire Destiny Devil Dignity Discipline Dogma Doubt Drinking Duty Earth Education Effort Encouragement Environment Equality Evil Failure Faith Family Fashion Fear Feelings Fighting Food Free Love Freedom Friendship Fun Funny Genius Giving God Gold Gratitude Greek Grief Happiness Hate Hatred Heart Heaven History Holiday Home Hope House quotes Human Nature Humanity Humility Hurt Ignorance Imagination Independence Innocence Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Islam Jesus Journey Joy Justice Knowledge Language Laughter Leadership Learning Leaving Liberalism Liberty Life Literature Logic Losing Love Lying Madness Materialism Memories Military Modesty Moon Morality Morning Motivational Nature Optimism Pain Painting Passion Past Peace Personality Pessimism Philosophy Plato Pleasure Politics Poverty Power Pride Progress Purpose Quality Rage Rain Reading Reality Religion Revolution Romance Running Sacrifice Sadness Sanity School Science Silence Simplicity Sin Sleep Socialism Son Soul Spirituality Sports Spring Style Suffering Tea Teaching Thankful Thanksgiving Theology Time Today Tolerance Tradition Tragedy Travel Truth Tyranny Understanding Virtue Vision Voting Waiting Wall War Water Wealth Wife Wine Wisdom Wit Worship Writing Youth
I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.

I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Rights, Giving, House

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Two, House

Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
House, Bed, Void

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wife, House, Dull
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.382, Simon and Schuster

The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, People, House
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

You May Also Like: