Top 143 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.