1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.