G K Chesterton

“Conjurer: Oh, I don't mind anyone knowing everything, Miss Carleon. There is something that is much more important than knowing how a…

— G K Chesterton

“Everywhere we see than men do not go mad by dreaming”

— G K Chesterton

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician…

— G K Chesterton

“Uncommon sense is common nonsense.”

— G K Chesterton

A L L men are ORDINARY men; the EXTRAORDINARY men are those who KNOW it.

— 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…

— G K Chesterton

“The eternal and essential truth is that until we love a thing in all its ugliness we cannot make it beautiful.”

— G K Chesterton

“Now against the specialist, against the man who studies only art or electricity, or the violin, or the thumbscrew or what not,…

— G K Chesterton

“It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous.”

— G K Chesterton

“believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter . . . a man will certainly fail, because he…

— G K Chesterton

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so…

— G K Chesterton

If an angel out of heaven Brings you other things to drink, Thank him for his kind attentions, Go and pour them…

— 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

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

— G K Chesterton

Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke.

— G K Chesterton

Were all in the same boat in a stormy sea¦ And we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

— G K Chesterton

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity.

— G K Chesterton

The true object of all human life is play.

— G K Chesterton

“Fairy tales are the only democratic institutions. All the classes have heard all the fairy tales.”

— G K Chesterton

“A man with no sword can never be beaten in swordmanship.”

— G K Chesterton

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

— G K Chesterton

“You cannot evade the issue of God, whether you are talking about pigs or the binomial theory...Things can be irrelevant to the…

— G K Chesterton