Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

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And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

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I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

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I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

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Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

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The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.

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The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

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A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

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Silence is the unbearable repartee.

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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

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Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

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A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.

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No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.

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