Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

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To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

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A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

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Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

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In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

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The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

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There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

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There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

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Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

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It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

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They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

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