1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.