24 Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

La intolerancia puede ser definida como la indignación de los hombres que no tienen opiniones.

El hombre sabe que hay en el alma tintes más desconcertantes, más innumerables y más anónimos que los colores de una selva otoñal... cree, sin embargo, que esos tintes, en todas sus fusiones y conversiones, son representables con precisión por un mecanismo arbitrario de gruñidos y chillidos. Cree que del interior de un bolsita salen realmente ruidos que significan todos los misterios de la memoria y todas la agonías del anhelo.

Gospode! kakav je to neobičan svijet u kojemu čovjek ne može ostati jedinstven, čak ni ako si da truda da poludi!

There is one thing is needful - everything - The rest is vanity of vanities.

My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.

''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.