23 Quotes by K. Chesterton

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits.

We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.

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

If an angel out of heaven / Brings you other things to drink, / Thank him for his kind attentions, / Go and pour them down the sink.

He could not think up to the height of his own towering style.

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Blasphemy itself could not survive religion; if anyone doubts that, let him try to blaspheme Odin.