G. K. Chesterton Quotes

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends

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

The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

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.

"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."

Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. a

Fairy tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.