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Quotes By G. K. Chesterton

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

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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

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There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

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All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

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The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

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