Quotes from G.K. Chesterton

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast, ' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.