Quotes from GK Chesterton
The test of happiness is gratitude.
- GK Chesterton
No man can be merry unless he is serious.
- GK Chesterton
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
- GK Chesterton
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
- GK Chesterton
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
- GK Chesterton
The materialist thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think the materialist a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.
- GK Chesterton
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
- GK Chesterton
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- GK Chesterton
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
- GK Chesterton
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
- GK Chesterton
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller.
- GK Chesterton
This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments.
- GK Chesterton