G. K. Chesterton Quotes

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

The past is not what it was.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.