1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.