549 Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

In other words, we may, by fixing our attention almost fiercely on the facts actually before us, force them to turn into adventures; force them to give up their meaning and fulfill their mysterious purpose.

What we all dread most is a maze with no centre.

Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.

If I am merely to float or fade or evolve, it may be towards something anarchic; if I am to riot, it must be for something respectable.

We have remarked that one reason offered for being progressive i that things naturally tend to grow better. But the only real reason for being progressive is that things naturally tend to grow worse. The corruption in things is not only the best argument for being progressive; it is also the only argument against being conservative.

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not understand. So long as we find the character easy to read, we are reading into it our own character.