G. K. Chesterton quotes

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. (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
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. Chesterton
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
G. K. Chesterton
Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G. K. Chesterton
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
G. K. Chesterton
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. Chesterton
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. Chesterton
My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober. (G. K. Chesterton)
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
G. K. Chesterton
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
G. K. Chesterton
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
G. K. Chesterton
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
G. K. Chesterton
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
G. K. Chesterton
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
G. K. Chesterton
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.
G. K. Chesterton
I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. (G. K. Chesterton)
It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
G. K. Chesterton
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
G. K. Chesterton
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
G. K. Chesterton
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
G. K. Chesterton