Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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

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

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

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

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

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

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.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.