Top 143 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

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.

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