1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

We must be fond of the world, even in order to change it.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.