549 Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists.

The devotee boasted that he would never abandon the faith; and therefore he persecuted for the faith. But the doctor of science actually boasts that he will always abandon a hypothesis; and yet he persecutes for the hypothesis. The Inquisitor violently enforced his creed, because it was unchangeable. The savant enforces it violently because he may change it the next day.

Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

I regret that I cannot do my duty as a true modern, by cursing everybody who made me whatever I am. I am not clear about what that is; but I am pretty sure that most of it is my own fault.

In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends

The silly sentimentalists of the French Revolution talked of the Rights of Man! We hate Rights as we hate Wrongs. We have abolished Right and Wrong.And Right and Left, said Syme with a simple eagerness, I hope you will abolish them too. They are much more troublesome to me.

If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God.