1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.