Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

It's easy to be heavy; hard to be light.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.