1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.