G.k. Chesterton Funny Quotes & Sayings

All men are tragic ... All men are comic ... Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat. — G.K. Chesterton

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree. — G.K. Chesterton

It stated that Rome tolerates, in her relation with the Russian Uniats, "strange heresies and even bearded and wedded clergy."
In that one extraordinary phrase, what formless monster begins to take form in their visions? In those eight words it is not too much to say that every term is startling in its inconsequence. As somebody tumbling down the stairs bumps upon every step, the writer comes a crash upon every word. The word "strange" is strange enough. The word "heresy" is stranger. Perhaps at first sight the word "bearded," with its joyous reminiscences of the game of Beaver, may appear the most funny. "Wedded" is also funny. Even the "and" between bearded and wedded is funny. But by far the funniest and most fantastic thing in all that fantastic sentence is the word "even. — G.K. Chesterton

"vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school of architecture. — G.K. Chesterton

The obvious thing to say of his appearance was that he would have been extremely handsome if he had not been entirely bald. But, indeed, that would itself be a rather bald way of putting it. Fantastic as it sounds, it would fit the case better to say that people would have been surprised to see hair growing on him; as surprised as if they had found hair growing on the bust of a Roman emperor. — G.K. Chesterton

Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton