Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton on Wise Famous Quotes.
It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.
And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.
The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried ... not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong ... A stiff apology is a second insult.
Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity.
He who has the faith has the fun.
Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity.
He who has the faith has the fun.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."
I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do - I can die.
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.
Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.
Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.