1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.