Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

A yawn is a silent shout.

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 gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

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.