G. K. Chesterton Quotes

“There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

topic:success failure

“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

topic:science

“A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

topic:foolishness faith

“the aim of the orator, is to convince us that he is not an orator.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

topic:speech

“They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my old childlike faith...”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:politics faith

“Cooking is an art; it has in it personality, and even perversity, for the definition of an art is that which must be personal and may be perverse.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:art

“Man, we say, has two sides, the specialist side where he must have subordination, and the social side where he must have equality.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

topic:choice

“We want the will of the people, not the votes of the people; and to give a man a vote against his will is to make voting more valuable than the democracy it declares.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:will democracy

“The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:killing

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