15 beautiful quotes by G.K. Chesterton. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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G.K. Chesterton
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
“We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your tho...
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children...
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardl...
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everythi...
“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable...
“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of sci...
