Quotes from GK Chesterton
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
- GK Chesterton
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
- GK Chesterton
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
- GK Chesterton
Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.
- GK Chesterton
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
- GK Chesterton
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
- GK Chesterton
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.
- GK Chesterton
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
- GK Chesterton
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
- GK Chesterton
If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
- GK Chesterton
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
- GK Chesterton
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
- GK Chesterton