549 Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side.

I knew no harm of Bonaparte and plenty of the Squire,And for to fight the Frenchman I did not much desire;But I did bash their baggonets because they came arrayedTo straighten out the crooked road an English drunkard made

The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

I have been asked to explain what I meant by saying that "Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." I have no notion when I said it or where I said it, or even whether I said it; in the sense that I do not now remember ever saying it at all. But I do know why I said it; if I ever said it at all.

Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world.

Nunca se ha dicho sobre el alma nada mejor que esa frase de Browne que la define como «lo que hay en el hombre que no debe rendir homenaje al sol».

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

The mind must be enlarged to see the simple things — or even to see the self-evident things.