Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.”

“Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.”

“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.”

“A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.”

“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.”

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”

“I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.”

“There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.”