1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is) has these vices much more. The Church has been cruel; but the world has been much more cruel. The Church has plotted; but the world has plotted much more. The Church has been superstitious; but it has never been so superstitious as the world is when left to itself.

How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.