Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.”

“People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.”

“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.”

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”

“Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.”

“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”

“Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.”

“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.”

“The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.”

“Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.”

“Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.”

“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”

“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”

“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”

“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”

“True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.”

“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”

“Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.”

“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.”

“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.”

“A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.”

“The only defensible war is a war of defense.”

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”