1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.

He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.

The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.