G. K. Chesterton Quotes

"If there were no God, there would be no Atheists."
-G. K. Chesterton in Atheism quotes.

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
-G. K. Chesterton

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."
-G. K. Chesterton in Success quotes.

"'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'"
-G. K. Chesterton in Patriotism quotes.

"For in all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd."
-G. K. Chesterton

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."
-G. K. Chesterton

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
-G. K. Chesterton

"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
-G. K. Chesterton

"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."
-G. K. Chesterton

"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."
-G. K. Chesterton

"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
-G. K. Chesterton in Books quotes.

"All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."
-G. K. Chesterton in Poetry quotes.

"If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever."
-G. K. Chesterton

"People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains."
-G. K. Chesterton

"Seemingly from the dawn of man all nations have had governments; and all nations have been ashamed of them."
-G. K. Chesterton

"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."
-G. K. Chesterton

"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried."
-G. K. Chesterton

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."
-G. K. Chesterton

"The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world."
-G. K. Chesterton

"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."
-G. K. Chesterton

"He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical."
-G. K. Chesterton

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up."
-G. K. Chesterton

"I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it."
-G. K. Chesterton in Morality quotes.

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."
-G. K. Chesterton

"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
-G. K. Chesterton in Music quotes.

"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache."
-G. K. Chesterton

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
-G. K. Chesterton in Books quotes.