Top 143 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

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

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

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.