1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create; for he is making an outline and a shape. Mohamet created, when he forbade wine but allowed five wives: he created a very big thing, which we have still to deal with.

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.