Famous Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”

G.K. Chesterton

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

G.K. Chesterton

“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.”

G.K. Chesterton

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”

G.K. Chesterton

“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”

G.K. Chesterton

“The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away. It was a place of dreams come true.”

G.K. Chesterton

“Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.”

G.K. Chesterton

“There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.”

G.K. Chesterton

“vers libre, (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school of architecture.”

G.K. Chesterton

A true warrior fights not because he hates the one in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

G.K. Chesterton