1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other – the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something – war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.

Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, ‘We will not be dictated to,’ and went off and became stenographers.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It’s the hardest thing in theology to believe.

Life is indeed terribly complicated – to a man who has lost his principles.

There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them.

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words – ‘free-love’ – as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.