Top 143 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

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

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

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