277 Total Quotes
Gilbert+Keith Chesterton Quotes
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. / For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.