1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."