G. K. Chesterton Quotes
+3I always like a dog so long as he isn’t spelled backward.
- G.K. Chesterton
+3Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
- G.K. Chesterton
+3Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, Faith means believing the unbelievable, And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1Silence is the unbearable repartee.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
– G.K. Chesterton
+1The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
– G.K. Chesterton
+1There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
— G.K. Chesterton
+1A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1I am not absent minded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
- G. K. Chesterton
