Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.