1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.