1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.

If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.