Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Half a truth is better than no politics.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton