Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quote

The church asks us to take off our hats when entering, not our heads.

Journalism essentially consists of saying 'lord Jones has died' to people who didn't know that lord Jones was alive.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

It has always been believed that there is something called destiny, but it has also always been believed that there is another thing called free will. What qualifies a man is the balance of that contradiction.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If something is truly worth doing, it's worth doing at all costs.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

There is something that gives splendor to everything that exists, and it is the illusion of finding something around the corner.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Mediocrity, possibly, consists of being in front of greatness and not realizing it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Democracy means government by the uneducated, and aristocracy means government by the poorly educated.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Those who speak against the family do not know what they do, because they do not know what they undo.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Maturity makes a man more of a spectator than an author of social life.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The 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