G. K. Chesterton quotes

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

"I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him."

"There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there." (Introduction. The Everlasting Man)

"There are in this world of ours only two kinds of speakers. The first is the man who is making a good speech and won't finish. The second is the man who is making a bad speech and can't finish. The latter is the longer."

"Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred."

"No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon."

"Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral."

"What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible."

"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."

"The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say."

"It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them."

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people." --MY FAVORITE SO FAR

"There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions."

"Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all."

"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."