Quotes from GK Chesterton
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.
- GK Chesterton
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
- GK Chesterton
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
- GK Chesterton
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
- GK Chesterton
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
- GK Chesterton
To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
- GK Chesterton
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
- GK Chesterton
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
- GK Chesterton
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
- GK Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- GK Chesterton
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
- GK Chesterton
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits.
- GK Chesterton