A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. – G.K. Chesterton
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. – G.K. Chesterton
The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before. – G.K. Chesterton
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – G.K. Chesterton
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. – G.K. Chesterton
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. – G.K. Chesterton
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. – G.K. Chesterton
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. – G.K. Chesterton
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. – G.K. Chesterton
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. – G.K. Chesterton
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. – G.K. Chesterton
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle. – G.K. Chesterton
Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. – G.K. Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. – G.K. Chesterton
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. – G.K. Chesterton
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. – G.K. Chesterton
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. – G.K. Chesterton
Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals. – G.K. Chesterton
It is always the secure who are humble. – G.K. Chesterton
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. – G.K. Chesterton
