Quotes from GK Chesterton
He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.
- GK Chesterton
Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.
- GK Chesterton
I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him—only to bring him to life.
- GK Chesterton
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
- GK Chesterton
The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.
- GK Chesterton
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
- GK Chesterton
In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.
- GK Chesterton
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
- GK Chesterton
When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
- GK Chesterton
The only object of liberty is life.
- GK Chesterton
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
- GK Chesterton
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
- GK Chesterton