1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.