G. K. Chesterton Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old G. K. Chesterton quotes, G. K. Chesterton sayings, and G. K. Chesterton proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it. G. K. Chesterton
The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact. G. K. Chesterton
The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder. G. K. Chesterton
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. G. K. Chesterton
White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. G. K. Chesterton
There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands. G. K. Chesterton
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen. G. K. Chesterton
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen. G. K. Chesterton
The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism. G. K. Chesterton
Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. G. K. Chesterton
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. G. K. Chesterton
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. G. K. Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. G. K. Chesterton
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. G. K. Chesterton
Tea, although an Oriental, / Is a gentleman at least; / Cocoa is a cad and coward, / Cocoa is a vulgar beast. G. K. Chesterton
The poor object to being governed badly, while the rich object to being governed at all. G. K. Chesterton
The strangest whim has seized me... / After all / I think I will not hang myself today. G. K. Chesterton
Exhilaration can be infinite, like sorrow; a joke can be so big that it breaks the roof of the stars. By simply going on being absurd, a thing can become godlike; there is but one step from the ridiculous to the sublime. G. K. Chesterton
The thing on the blind side of the heart, / On the wrong side of the door, / The green plant groweth, menacing / Almighty lovers in the Spring; / There is always a forgotten thing, / And love is not secure. G. K. Chesterton
The world is a place on which England is found. G. K. Chesterton
The true object of all human life is play. G. K. Chesterton
Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size. G. K. Chesterton
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. G. K. Chesterton