Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

Topics

AdventureOnlyInconvenienceWrongly

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.

Joe Sacco

MyselfPeopleMoreNeglectedTried

We didn't have any solution to the world's problems. I mean, we were trying to grow up in a socialist way to some future where the world might be less of a miserable place than it is.

Joe Strummer

FutureWorldProblemsGrowSolution

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

Robert Green Ingersoll

LoveFearMenGoldPrejudiceMalice

I don't think we'll ever be millionaires. I don't really think about the future.

Sid Vicious

FutureThinkAboutEverReally

There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.

Sigourney Weaver

WorkPeopleThinkLovedYouLiving

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

Martin Van Buren

BestOpinionAccomplishmentYouBeen

What's natural is beautiful, and when you're not you anymore, you become a caricature.

Monica Bellucci

BeautifulYouBecomeNaturalAnymore

I'm a slob. I live in sweatpants and workout clothes.

Dinah Manoff

LiveClothesWorkoutSlob

No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.

Chuck Hagel

MeVoteIndividualQuoteStatement

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

Anwar Sadat

PeopleWantSeekThingsMostVery

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.

Suzanne Fields

WomenBestMenBlackPictureMovies

I listened to George Carlin when I was a kid and knew every word of his routines.

Sean Hayes

KidKnewWordEveryHisRoutines

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