1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

There are no new ideas.