Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.

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.