549 Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

if there were no coincidence, it would be the greatest coincidence of all.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Progress is the mother of problems.