Gilbert Keith Chesterton
View AuthorThere is something that gives splendor to everything that exists, and it is the illusion of finding something around the corner.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
View AuthorMediocrity, possibly, consists of being in front of greatness and not realizing it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
View AuthorDemocracy means government by the uneducated, and aristocracy means government by the poorly educated.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
View AuthorThose who speak against the family do not know what they do, because they do not know what they undo.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
View AuthorThe most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
View AuthorDrink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
View AuthorMaturity makes a man more of a spectator than an author of social life.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
View AuthorThe church asks us to take off our hats when entering, not our heads.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
View AuthorThe place where children are born and men die, where freedom and love flourish, is not an office, a store, or a factory. There I see the importance of the family.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
View AuthorCrazy is not the one who has lost their reason, but the one who has lost everything, everything, except for reason.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
View AuthorAs children, we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why aren't we grateful to God for filling our stockings with our feet?
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
View AuthorThe purpose of having an open mind, like that of an open mouth, is to fill it with something valuable.