K. Chesterton Quotes (17 Quotes)

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

Misers get up early in the morning and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

I believe in getting into hot water - it helps keep you clean.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

All good was a remnant.

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.