Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes & Sayings (Page 14)

“It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.”

“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.”

“What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.”

“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”

“A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.”

“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”

“Half a truth is better than no politics.”

“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”

“The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.”

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