G K Chesterton quotes

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
- G. K. Chesterton

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.
- G. K. Chesterton

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case, it is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
- G. K. Chesterton, The Defendant

The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
- G.K. Chesterton

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
- G. K. Chesterton

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship of the press.
- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
- G.K. Chesterton

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
- G. K. Chesterton

Despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy.
- G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
- G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
- G. K.Chesterton

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
- G.K. Chesterton

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
- G. K. Chesterton