1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate nothing really independent of itself.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.