1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

A dying monarchy is always one that has too much power, not too little; a dying religion always interferes more than it ought, not less.

The right kind of monarchy is one where everybody goes about with the permanent conviction that the king can do no wrong.