Top 143 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.