I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
G. K. Chesterton
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
G. K. Chesterton
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G. K. Chesterton
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
G. K. Chesterton
We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea,and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. Chesterton
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
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
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
G. K. Chesterton
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
G. K. Chesterton