Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”

“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”

“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”

“The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.”

“Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.”

“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”

“Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.”

“Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.”

“Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.”