9+ G.K. Chesterton Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best G.K. Chesterton quotes and sayings.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. — 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

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. — G.K. Chesterton

The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous. — G.K. Chesterton

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws. — G.K. Chesterton

The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. — G.K. Chesterton

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one. — G.K. Chesterton

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget. — G.K. Chesterton

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it. — G.K. Chesterton