G. K. Chesterton Quotes

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. - G. K. Chesterton

You shouldn't take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. - G. K. Chesterton

You have weighed the stars in the balance, and grasped the skies in a span: / Take, if you must have answer, the word of a common man. - G. K. Chesterton

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. - G. 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. - G. K. Chesterton

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes. - G. K. Chesterton

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. - G. K. Chesterton

With monstrous head and sickening cry / And ears like errant wings, / The devil's walking parody / On all four-footed things. - G. K. Chesterton

White founts falling in the courts of the sun, / And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run. - G. K. Chesterton

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. - G. K. Chesterton

Page 1 of 18

Next -> Last ->>