Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.

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Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

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When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

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Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

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It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

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As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.

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I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

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She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

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For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.

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The center of every man's existence is a dream.

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Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

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The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect.

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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

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What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

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The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

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