Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes & Sayings

144 most famous Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes and sayings (writer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

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

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”

“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”

“One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”

“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”

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

“A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.”

“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.”