1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Adventure is the champagne of life.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.