Top 143 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

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

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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

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

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.