1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past . Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!