1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour’s landmark.

Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.

Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God.

There are many ways to fall down, but there’s only one way to stand up straight.

It’s not the world that’s got so much worse but the news coverage that’s got so much better.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

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