- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. G. K. Chesterton »
- All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. G. K. Chesterton »
- An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. G. K. Chesterton »
- Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. G. K. Chesterton »
- Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. G. K. Chesterton »
- By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. G. K. Chesterton »
- Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. G. K. Chesterton »
- Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. G. K. Chesterton »
- I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean. G. K. Chesterton »
- I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. G. K. Chesterton »
- I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. G. K. Chesterton »
- If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. G. K. Chesterton »
- It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong. G. K. Chesterton »
- It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. G. K. Chesterton »
- Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. G. K. Chesterton »
- Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. G. K. Chesterton »
- Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity. G. K. Chesterton »
- Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. G. K. Chesterton »
- My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober. G. K. Chesterton »
- Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. 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 »
- The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. G. K. Chesterton »
- The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. G. K. Chesterton »
- There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. G. K. Chesterton »
- There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. G. K. Chesterton »
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. G. K. Chesterton »
- To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. G. K. Chesterton »
- Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. G. K. Chesterton »
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