1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.

At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, "Life is not worth living." We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day; nobody thinks that it can possibly have any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, the world would stand on its head.

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