1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

The test of happiness is gratitude.

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.