There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton