G.K Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction.

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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

G.K Chesterton

Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

G.K Chesterton

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

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

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

G.K Chesterton

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

G.K Chesterton

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

G.K Chesterton

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

G.K Chesterton

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

G.K Chesterton

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

G.K Chesterton

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

G.K Chesterton

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

G.K Chesterton

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

G.K Chesterton

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

G.K Chesterton

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

G.K Chesterton