Quotes Gilbert K. Chesterton

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for...

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad no...

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he...

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until i...

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of s...

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into t...

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow...

A room without books is like a body without a soul....

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does...

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not...

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her...

A yawn is a silent shout....

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps...

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave th...

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry....

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An...

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered....

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, ala...

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. ...

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every...

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere....

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs....

Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in Fr...

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on t...

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt....