Quotes by G. K. Chesterton

“We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it.”

“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”

“The uglier a mans legs are, the better he plays golf-its almost a law.”

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”

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

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

“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

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

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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 always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

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

Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.