1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

Atheism is too theological.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.