G. K. Chesterton Quotes

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. - G. K. Chesterton

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? - G. K. Chesterton

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any. - G. K. Chesterton

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it. - G. K. Chesterton

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read. - G. K. Chesterton

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. - G. K. Chesterton

We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. - G. K. Chesterton

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. - G. K. Chesterton

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - G. K. Chesterton

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem. - G. K. Chesterton

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