Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
Half a truth is better than no politics.
