Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.

My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled. Perhaps the principal objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts an argument.

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.