Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

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

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

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.