1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.