Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

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America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.

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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

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Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

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All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

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I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

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A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

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Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

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Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual.

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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

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Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

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Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

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The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.

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For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

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The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men could take a hint. The moderns drag out into lengths and reels of extravagance their new orthodoxy of being unorthodox, because they also cannot give a hint -- or take a hint. Yet all perfect and well-poised art is really a hint.

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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

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If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

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