1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

New roads; new ruts.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

A stiff apology is a second insult. . . The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.

Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.