1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.