“A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.”
— G. K. Chesterton
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
— G. K. Chesterton
“Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.”
— G. K. Chesterton
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
— G. K. Chesterton
“Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.”
— G. K. Chesterton
“The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.”
— G. K. Chesterton
“The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.”
— G. K. Chesterton
“Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”
— G. K. Chesterton
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
— G. K. Chesterton
“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.”
— G. K. Chesterton
“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.”
— G. K. Chesterton