Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotes and words of wisdom

"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."
Found in the topic Truth.

"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."
Found in the topic Adventure.

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing a line somewhere."
Found in the topic Art.

"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
Found in the topic Music.

"Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
Found in the topic Journalism.

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."
Found in the topic Love.

"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
Found in the topic Bed.

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."
Found in the topic Religion.

"Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Journalism consists largely in saying Lord Jones died to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
Found in the topic News.

"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know."
Found in the topic Education.

"Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road."
Found in the topic Road.

"Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it."
Found in the topic Fiction.

"We make our friends; we make our enemies; But God makes our next-door neighbor."
Found in the topic Neighbor.

"When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws."
Found in the topic Law.

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
Found in the topic Argument.

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
Found in the topic Job.

"I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."
Found in the topic Belief.

"No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness ? or so good as drink."
Found in the topic Alcohol.

"The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. There is no big man who has not felt small. Some men never feel small; but these are the few men who are."
Found in the topic Clergy.

Interesting Quotes

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.Scott Adams - US cartoonist (1957 - )

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.Martin Luther King