1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.