1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.