107 Quotes by G. K. Chesterton

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

True contentment is a real, even an active virtue - not only affirmative but creative. It is the power of getting out of any situation all there is in it.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.