Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton