G. K. Chesterton quotes
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. 
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. 
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. 
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. 
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. 
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. 
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. 
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. 
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. 
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. G. K. Chesterton Short quotes ⇑
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Feminism is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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.
We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.