1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.