G. K. Chesterton Quotes

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Am in Market Harborough. Where ought I to be?

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

Why do you rush through the fields in trains, Guessing so much and so much. Why do you flash through the flowery meads, Fat-head poet that nobody reads; And why do you know such a frightful lot About people in gloves and such?

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: ‘Of course I do not like green cheese: I am very fond of brown sherry’.

They died to save their country and they only saved the world.

The strangest whim has seized me… After all I think I will not hang myself today.

The gallows in my garden, people say, Is new and neat and adequately tall.

And I dream of the days when work was scrappy, And rare in our pockets the mark of the mint, When we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.