1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.