Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”

“The simplification of anything is always sensational.”

“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.”

“We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.”

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”

“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”

“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”

“Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.”

“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”

“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”