107 Quotes by G. K. Chesterton

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year.It is that we should have a new soul.

Tea, although an Oriental, / Is a gentleman at least; / Cocoa is a cad and coward, / Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

The poor object to being governed badly, while the rich object to being governed at all.

The strangest whim has seized me... / After all / I think I will not hang myself today.

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.

Exhilaration can be infinite, like sorrow; a joke can be so big that it breaks the roof of the stars. By simply going on being absurd, a thing can become godlike; there is but one step from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.