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G. K. Chesterton
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
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G. K. Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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G. K. Chesterton
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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G. K. Chesterton
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
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G. K. Chesterton
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
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G. K. Chesterton
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
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G. K. Chesterton
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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G. K. Chesterton
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
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G. K. Chesterton
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
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G. K. Chesterton
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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G. K. Chesterton
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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G. K. Chesterton
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
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G. K. Chesterton
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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G. K. Chesterton
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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G. K. Chesterton
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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