G. K. Chesterton Quotes

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

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

Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.