Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
| Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of op ... | Read Full Quote |
| The men who really believe in themselves are all in lun ... | Read Full Quote |
| Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fic ... | Read Full Quote |
| Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. ... | Read Full Quote |
| If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of ... | Read Full Quote |
| An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considere ... | Read Full Quote |
| All architecture is great architecture after sunset per ... | Read Full Quote |
| Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the n ... | Read Full Quote |
| People who make history know nothing about history. You ... | Read Full Quote |
| Democracy means government by the uneducated, while ari ... | Read Full Quote |
| A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party d ... | Read Full Quote |
| There is something to be said for every error but, what ... | Read Full Quote |
| Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human ... | Read Full Quote |
| Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of c ... | Read Full Quote |
| Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason ... | Read Full Quote |
| Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to ap ... | Read Full Quote |
| I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however th ... | Read Full Quote |
| It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that th ... | Read Full Quote |
| Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty ... | Read Full Quote |
| Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because ... | Read Full Quote |
| Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of ... | Read Full Quote |
| It is not funny that anything else should fall down onl ... | Read Full Quote |
| The way to love anything is to realize that it might be ... | Read Full Quote |
| The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all thing ... | Read Full Quote |
| The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wantin ... | Read Full Quote |
| The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nat ... | Read Full Quote |
| I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of th ... | Read Full Quote |
| We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes o ... | Read Full Quote |
| The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to l ... | Read Full Quote |
| Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness ... | Read Full Quote |
| Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. ... | Read Full Quote |
| Materialists and madmen never have doubts. ... | Read Full Quote |
| It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke ... | Read Full Quote |
| Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a ... | Read Full Quote |
| I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean. ... | Read Full Quote |
| Coincidences are spiritual puns. ... | Read Full Quote |
| A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a b ... | Read Full Quote |
| Education is the period during which you are being inst ... | Read Full Quote |
| Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property ... | Read Full Quote |
| You can only find truth with logic if you have already ... | Read Full Quote |
| Dogmatism does not mean the absence of thought, but the ... | Read Full Quote |