1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be...

Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.

But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

The people who are most bigoted are those who have no conviction at all.

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.