1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.