1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God