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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes about Love

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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Inspirational, Success

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Inspirational, Friendship

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Fighting, Fighting On

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Faith, Religious

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Pleasure, Crisis

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, World, Way
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Mean, Humility

The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Beautiful, Girl

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Appreciation, Gratitude

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Men, Good Man

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Children, Justice
"The Coloured Lands". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1938.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, God, Believe

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Hate, Men

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Beautiful, Two

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Beautiful, Music Love

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Funny, Life
"The Illustrated London News" Magazine, July 16, 1910.

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Princess, Dragons

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Men, Pits

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Men, Decline
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.402, Simon and Schuster

A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Fun, Sorry

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Experience, Exhausted

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