Gilbert K. Chesterton

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like…

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised…

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable…

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak…

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over…

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his…

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They…

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle…

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking…

The only defensible war is a war of defense…

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read…

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese…

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger…