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Gilbert K Chesterton

29-May-1874

United Kingdom

Writer

Chesterton was educated at St Paul's School and later studied art at the Slade School and literature at University College, London. His writings for 1910 were of three types. First, his public criticisms, especially for his influential journalism, were collected in The Defendant (1901), Twelve Types (1902), and Heretics (1905). In it he portrayed Boer's strong views on the South African war. Politically, he started as a Liberal but a short time later, with his Christian friend and contemporary Hilaire Belloc, the Districtist, he favored land redistribution. This section of his thinking is illustrated by What Is Bad about the World (1910). His second focus was literary criticism. Robert Browning (1903) followed by Charles Dickens (1906) and the acclaim and criticism of the works of Charles Dickens (1911), selecting individual novels, which are among his finest contributions to criticism. Chesterton’s friendship was with various men like H.G. Wells, Shaw, Belloc, and Max Beerbohm. His Autobiography was published in the year 1936. He died on 14 june 1936.

QUOTES BY Gilbert K Chesterton

“Alone of all creeds, Christianity has added courage to the virtues of the Creator. For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.”

“The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.”

“The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.”

“It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.”

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”

“There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one’s grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.”

“I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him – rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.”