1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

If Christianity should happen to be true – that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe – then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.

No man’s really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be...

I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.

If you’d take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can’t say. But it might.

In anything that does cover the whole of your life – in your philosophy and your religion – you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it’s something you ought to do yourself.

Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people’s property.

Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.