1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is the great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

There’d be a lot less scandal if people didn’t idealize sin and pose as sinners.

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word “damn” than in the word “degeneration.”

The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children’s games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends.

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.

The supreme adventure is being BORN.