24 Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.

Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.