Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”

“Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all. ”

“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”

“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?”

“Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.”

“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.”

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

“Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.”

“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.”

“The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.”

“All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”

“I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.”

“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”

“Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.”

“The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”

“People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.”

“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.”

“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wi...”

“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures...”

“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”