“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. ChestertonA true warrior fights not because he hates the one in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
— G.K. Chesterton