Quotes by : G.K. Chesterton

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on....

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the....

A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a....

If you try to talk about a truth that’s merely moral, people always think it’s merely metaphorical.....

...It expands; it only destroys because it broadens; even so, thought only destroys because it broadens.....

[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale....

The truth is that exploration and enlargement make the world smaller. The telegraph and the steamboat....

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered....

The modern mind is like the eye of a man who is too tired to see the difference between blue and green.....

We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other but what....