1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.