
List of quotes from G.K. Chesterton
"The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it."
by G.K. Chesterton
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
by G.K. Chesterton
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
by G.K. Chesterton
"Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won’t grow again." by G.K. Chesterton
"If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever."
by G.K. Chesterton
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
by G.K. Chesterton
"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."
by G.K. Chesterton
"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
by G.K. Chesterton
"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
by G.K. Chesterton
"A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it."
by G.K. Chesterton
"The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all."
by G.K. Chesterton