1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.