1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don’t, as a rule.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn’t.

You can’t have the family farm without the family.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, “I don’t care where the water goes if it doesn’t get into the wine.”

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice.

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do – I can die.

You don’t want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!