549 Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

There is no more dangerous or disgusting habit than that of celebrating Christmas before it comes.

Have you ever noticed this — that people never answer what you say? They answer what you mean — or what they think you mean.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.

Pan again!" said Dr. Bull irritably. "You seem to think Pan is everything." "So he is," said the Professor, "in Greek. He means everything." "Don't forget," said the Secretary, looking down, "that he also means Panic.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.