Inspirational Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Adventure is the champagne of life.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The supreme adventure is being BORN

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Progress is the mother of problems.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only object of liberty is life.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are no new ideas.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Humility is the mother of giants.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The people who are most bigoted are those who have no conviction at all.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton