1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.