1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.