1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.