1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.

I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.