1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.