Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Important Quotes

Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Bed Quotes , Half Quotes

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Want Quotes

He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Funny Quotes , Time Quotes

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Men Quotes

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Errors Quotes , Finals Quotes

The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Dream Quotes , Luck Quotes

You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Blue Quotes

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Dull Quotes , Lasts Quotes

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Habit Quotes

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Fruit Quotes

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Truth Quotes , Honesty Quotes

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Discipline Quotes , Materialism Quotes

Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Mean Quotes , Class Quotes

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Home Quotes , Might Quotes

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Kings Quotes , Memories Quotes

When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Song Quotes , Sound Quotes