Quotes from GK Chesterton
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
— GK Chesterton
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
— GK Chesterton
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
— GK Chesterton
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
— GK Chesterton
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
— GK Chesterton
What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.
— GK Chesterton
For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
— GK Chesterton
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
— GK Chesterton
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
— GK Chesterton
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
— GK Chesterton
Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
— GK Chesterton
Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.
— GK Chesterton