G. K. Chesterton quotes page 1

1874-1936, English writer

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call
me a fool.
G. K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G. K. Chesterton

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
G. K. Chesterton

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
G. K. Chesterton

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

Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage
makes you a car.
G. K. Chesterton

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. Chesterton

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
G. K. Chesterton

All men can be criminals, if tempted. All men can be heroes, if inspired.
G. K. Chesterton

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at
a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
G. K. Chesterton

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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

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

Love is not blind - that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound. And the more it is bound the
less it is blind.
G. K. Chesterton

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
G. K. Chesterton

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
G. K. Chesterton

Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they
tell us that dragons can be beaten.
G. K. Chesterton

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that
falls on them unless they act.
G. K. Chesterton

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
G. K. Chesterton

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a
new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a
particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts
afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
G. K. Chesterton

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its
author.
G. K. Chesterton

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man
become in its long journey toward the stars?
G. K. Chesterton

The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: First that it is
beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
G. K. Chesterton

Men always talk about the most important things to total strangers. It is because in the total
stranger we perceive man himself; the image of God is not disguised by resemblances to an
uncle or doubts of the wisdom of a moustache. Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they
are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
G. K. Chesterton

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own
heresy.
G. K. Chesterton

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats
Grape-Nuts on principle.
G. K. Chesterton

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the
corner.
G. K. Chesterton

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