1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.