G K Chesterton Quotes

Best Quotes by G K Chesterton (Top 10)

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
G K Chesterton
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
G K Chesterton
We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G K Chesterton
People generally quarrel because they can't argue.
G K Chesterton
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
G K Chesterton
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul
G K Chesterton
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.
G K Chesterton
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
G K Chesterton
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
G K Chesterton
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G K Chesterton

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
G K Chesterton
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
G K Chesterton
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
G K Chesterton
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
G K Chesterton
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
G K Chesterton
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G K Chesterton
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
G K Chesterton
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G K Chesterton
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G K Chesterton
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
G K Chesterton