Gilbert K. Chesterton's Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton's Quotes 132

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the...

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for...

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to...

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their...

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of...

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our...

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying...

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we...

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is...

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode...

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it...

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that...

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not...

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