1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

Art is the signature of man.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.