Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes about Home

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

Home, Mean, Not Worth It

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

Inspiring, Travel, Home

"The Everlasting Man" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, (Introduction: The Plan Of This Book), 1925.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Inspirational, Home, Adventure

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Women, Home, Average

Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Home, Adventure, Men

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christmas, Beautiful, Home

It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Business, Home, Imagination

Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Home, Gentleman, Dining

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Home, Might, Turnips

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Girl, Mother, Home

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes about Home

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