| "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." G K Chesterton Quotes |
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| "Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another." G K Chesterton |
| "Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." G K Chesterton |
| "My country, right or wrong" is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying "My mother, drunk or sober." G K Chesterton |
| "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." G K Chesterton |
| 'My country right or wrong' is like saying 'my mother drunk or sober' G K Chesterton Popular Quotes |
| 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' G K Chesterton Popular Quotes |
| The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. G K Chesterton Remarks |
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| The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. G K Chesterton |
| A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. G K Chesterton |
| A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. G K Chesterton |
| A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. G K Chesterton Adages |
| A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: `Of course I do not like green cheese: I am very fond of brown sherry.' G K Chesterton Quotes |
| A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying. G K Chesterton Adages |
| A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. G K Chesterton |
| A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. G K Chesterton |
| A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. G K Chesterton Popular Quotes |
| A yawn is a silent shout. G K Chesterton Quotations |
| After all / I think I will not hang myself today. G K Chesterton |
| All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. G K Chesterton |
| All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. G K Chesterton Quotations |
| All government is an ugly necessity. G K Chesterton |
| All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. G K Chesterton |
| All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. G K Chesterton Quotes |
| All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot. G K Chesterton |
| An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. G K Chesterton |
| An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. G K Chesterton |
| 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'. G K Chesterton Quotations |
| And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. G K Chesterton |
| Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. G K Chesterton Popular Quotes |
| Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. G K Chesterton Remarks |
| Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. G K Chesterton |
| Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. G K Chesterton Adages |
| Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. G K Chesterton |
| Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. G K Chesterton Popular Quotes |
| As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. G K Chesterton Adages |
| Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. G K Chesterton |
| Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. G K Chesterton Sayings |
| Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. G K Chesterton |
| Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. G K Chesterton |
| Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. G K Chesterton |
| But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose. G K Chesterton Adages |
| Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all fools. G K Chesterton Adages |
| Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. G K Chesterton Adages |
| Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. G K Chesterton |
| Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. G K Chesterton Quotes |
| Coincidences are spiritual puns. G K Chesterton Sayings |
| Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf. G K Chesterton |
| Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. G K Chesterton |
| Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it. G K Chesterton Adages |
| Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? G K Chesterton Sayings |
| Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. G K Chesterton Quotations |
| Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. G K Chesterton |
| Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it. G K Chesterton |
| Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. G K Chesterton Remarks |
| Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. G K Chesterton Adages |
| Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. G K Chesterton |
| Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. G K Chesterton |
| Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else. G K Chesterton |
| Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. G K Chesterton Quotes |
| Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. G K Chesterton |
| Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. G K Chesterton Popular Quotes |
| Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. G K Chesterton Remarks |
| Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. G K Chesterton |
| Fools! for I also had my hour; / One far fierce hour and sweet: / There was a shout about my ears, / And palms before my feet. G K Chesterton Popular Quotes |
| Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G K Chesterton |
| Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who get the most out of life. G K Chesterton Quotes |
| Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized. G K Chesterton Adages |
| Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life. G K Chesterton Sayings |
| He crams with cans of poisoned meat / The subjects of the King, / And when they die by thousands / Why, he laughs like anything. G K Chesterton Adages |
| I believe in getting into hot water - it helps keep you clean. G K Chesterton |
| I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. G K Chesterton |
| I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself. G K Chesterton Quotes |
| I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. G K Chesterton |
| I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. G K Chesterton |
| I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. G K Chesterton |
| I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. G K Chesterton |
| I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. G K Chesterton Adages |
| I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... G K Chesterton |
| I want to reassure you I am not this size, really - dear me no, I'm being amplified by the mike. G K Chesterton |
| I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G K Chesterton |
| If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing badly. G K Chesterton |
| If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. G K Chesterton Adages |
| If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. G K Chesterton |
| If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. G K Chesterton |
| It is at unimportant moments that a man is a gentleman. At important moments he ought to be something better. G K Chesterton Sayings |
| It 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 Quotes |
| It is not the man of pleasure who has pleasure; it is not the man of the world who appreciates the world. ... It is the awkward man, whose evening dress does not fit him, whose gloves will not go on, whose compliments will not come off. . . G K Chesterton |
| It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. G K Chesterton |
| It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. G K Chesterton Remarks |
| It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. G K Chesterton |
| Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. G K Chesterton Quotes |
| Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. G K Chesterton Popular Quotes |
| Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. G K Chesterton |
| Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies. G K Chesterton Quotations |
| Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. G K Chesterton |
| Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. G K Chesterton Popular Quotes |
| Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. G K Chesterton Popular Quotes |
| Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. G K Chesterton |
| Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. G K Chesterton |
| Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head. G K Chesterton Adages |
| Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them , in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire. G K Chesterton |
| Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription. G K Chesterton |
| Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. G K Chesterton |
| Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. G K Chesterton Quotes |
| Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. G K Chesterton Sayings |
| Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. G K Chesterton |
| New roads; new ruts. G K Chesterton Popular Quotes |
| No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. G K Chesterton Sayings |
O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our people drift and die;
The walls of gold entomb us,
The swords of scorn divide,
Take not thy thunder from us,
But take away our pride. G K Chesterton |
| One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. G K Chesterton |
| One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. G K Chesterton |
| People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. G K Chesterton |
| People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains. G K Chesterton Quotations |
| People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make G K Chesterton Quotations |
| Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. G K Chesterton Sayings |
| Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. G K Chesterton |
| Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. G K Chesterton |
| Talk about the pews and steeples/ And the cash that goes therewith!/ But the souls of Christian peoples . . ./ Chuck it, Smith! G K Chesterton |
| The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. G K Chesterton |
| The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. G K Chesterton |
| The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried. G K Chesterton |
| The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. G K Chesterton Popular Quotes |
| The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. G K Chesterton |
| The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. G K Chesterton |
| The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. G K Chesterton Remarks |
| The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist. G K Chesterton Quotes |
| The men that worked for England / They have their graves at home. G K Chesterton |
| The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. G K Chesterton Adages |
| The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang. G K Chesterton Quotations |
| The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it. G K Chesterton Sayings |
| The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. G K Chesterton Popular Quotes |
| The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. G K Chesterton Adages |
| The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. G K Chesterton |
| The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshiping the single star. G K Chesterton |
| The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. G K Chesterton |
| The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. G K Chesterton |
| The road from heaven to Hereford / Where the apple wood of Hereford / Goes all the way to Wales. G K Chesterton |
| The successful businessman sometimes makes money by ability and experience, but he generally makes it by mistake. G K Chesterton Sayings |
| The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. G K Chesterton |
| The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. G K Chesterton |
| The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. G K Chesterton |
| The true object of all human life is play. G K Chesterton |
| The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. G K Chesterton Quotes |
| The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed. G K Chesterton Popular Quotes |
| The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. G K Chesterton Remarks |
| The 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 Sayings |
| The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. G K Chesterton |
| The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder. G K Chesterton |
| The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. G K Chesterton |
| There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. G K Chesterton |
| There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. G K Chesterton |
| There 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 Remarks |
| There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. G K Chesterton |
| There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape Nuts on principle. G K Chesterton Quotes |
| Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. G K Chesterton Popular Quotes |
| To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. G K Chesterton Adages |
| Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. G K Chesterton |
| Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. G K Chesterton |
| True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. G K Chesterton |
| Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. G K Chesterton |
| Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem. G K Chesterton |
| Watch the stars, and from them learn. To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground. G K Chesterton Remarks |
| We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. G K Chesterton |
| We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. G K Chesterton Quotes |
| We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. G K Chesterton |
| We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. G K Chesterton |
| What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read. G K Chesterton |
| What we call personality (...) has become the most impersonal thing in the world. Its pale and featureless face appears like a ghost at every corner and in every crowd. ... Individualism kills individuality, precisely because individualism has to be an 'ism' quite as much as Communism or Calvinism. The economic and ethical school which calls itself individualist ended by threatening the world with the flattest and dullest spread of the commonplace. Men, instead of being themselves, set out to find a self to be: a sort of abstract economic self identified with self-interest. But while the self was that of a man, the self-interest was generally that of a class or a trade or even an empire. So far from really remaining a separate self, the man became part of a communal mass of selfishness. G K Chesterton |
| When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it. G K Chesterton Remarks |
| When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? G K Chesterton Sayings |
| When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? G K Chesterton Quotes |
| When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws. G K Chesterton |
| White founts falling in the courts of the sun, / And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run. G K Chesterton Quotes |
| Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it. G K Chesterton |
| Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. G K Chesterton |
| Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. G K Chesterton Quotes |
| You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. G K Chesterton |
| You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion. G K Chesterton |
| You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. G K Chesterton Popular Quotes |
