1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.