549 Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.