Quotes by G. K. Chesterton
| Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fict ... | Read Full Quote |
| Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity. ... | Read Full Quote |
| An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considere ... | Read Full Quote |
| Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness ... | Read Full Quote |
| Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of ... | Read Full Quote |
| I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the ... | Read Full Quote |
| Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewh ... | Read Full Quote |
| By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed ... | Read Full Quote |
| A room without books is like a body without a soul. ... | Read Full Quote |
| A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a ba ... | Read Full Quote |
| My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot ... | Read Full Quote |
| I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean. ... | Read Full Quote |
| Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they bec ... | Read Full Quote |
| Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason ... | Read Full Quote |
| I say that a man must be certain of his morality for th ... | Read Full Quote |
| There is a great deal of difference between an eager ma ... | Read Full Quote |
| Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of c ... | Read Full Quote |
| The thing I hate about an argument is that it always in ... | Read Full Quote |
| To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as ... | Read Full Quote |
| Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the ... | Read Full Quote |
| Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is De ... | Read Full Quote |
| The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to l ... | Read Full Quote |
| It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is ... | Read Full Quote |
| If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. ... | Read Full Quote |
| The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. ... | Read Full Quote |
| All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. ... | Read Full Quote |
| There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever ... | Read Full Quote |
| There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting sub ... | Read Full Quote |
| It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that t ... | Read Full Quote |