G.K. Chesterton

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

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

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

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.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.