G K CHESTERTON QUOTES

“I believe in getting into hot water. It keeps you clean.”

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”

“It is always the secure who are humble.”

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”

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

“A man can be wise and happy without a family, but it is the whole meaning of a family to create wisdom and happiness.”

“The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.”

“The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.”

“A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public is to him non-existent.”

“There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”

“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.” QUOTES ABOUT DEFINITION OF LOVE

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”

“The only defensible war is a war of defense.”

“The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.”

“The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.”

“A man can make a tour in nine days and lie still in bed for three years and call himself a traveler.”

“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”

“Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.”

“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.”

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”