The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
So strong is tradition that later generations will dream of what they have never seen.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
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Each thing that obeys law [has] the glory and isolation of the anarchist.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
The dragon without St. George would not even be grotesque.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
Dickens didn't write what people wanted. He wanted what people wanted.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Quoted by G.K. Chesterton