The quotations of

G. K. Chesterton

English author and Christian apologist

1874–1936

94 quotes, most often on Christianity, God and Truth & Lies. Part of the Writers collection.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Charles Dickens (1906).
- Reading
When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
- Laws
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
In The Illustrated London News (19 April 1930)
- Truth & Lies
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
The Catholic Church and Conversion
Is one religion as good as another? Is one horse in the Derby as good as another?
- Religion
Journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
- Journalism
- Writing
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
The Speaker (15 December 1900)
The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.
- Work
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
In The Illustrated London News (6 April 1918)
- Politics
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
The Defendant (1901), “A Defence of Humilities”
- Virtue
The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.
- Politics
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
- War & Peace
It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.
- Morality
Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
- Truth & Lies
Theology is only thought applied to religion.
The New Jerusalem
- Theology

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