1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason...

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.