“The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.”
– 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
“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”
– G.K. Chesterton
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
– G.K. Chesterton
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
– G.K. Chesterton
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
– G.K. Chesterton
‘There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.’
– G.K. Chesterton
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
– G.K. Chesterton
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
– G.K. Chesterton
Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
– G. K. Chesterton
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
– G.K. Chesterton
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
– G. K. Chesterton
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
– G. K. Chesterton
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
– G. K. Chesterton
There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
– G.K. Chesterton
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
– G.K. Chesterton
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
– G.K. Chesterton
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
– G.K. Chesterton
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
– G. K. Chesterton
I always like a dog so long as he isn’t spelled backward.
– G.K. Chesterton