Quotes by : Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover....

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of....

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof....

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But....