549 Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

From all that terror teaches, / From lies of tongue and pen, / From all the easy speeches / That comfort cruel men, / From sale and profanation / Of honour and the sword, / From sleep and from damnation, / Deliver us, good Lord!

To love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No. A woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.