1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain.