Quotes by Gilbert Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

A yawn is a silent shout.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

Without education, we are in the horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

True contentment is a real, even an active, virtue - not only affirmative but creative. It is the power of getting out of any situation all there is in it.