There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhen giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy atmosphere. You can prove that a man is not the son of a king, or that he is not the delegate of a definite number of people. But you cannot prove that a man is not a gentleman.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
Gilbert K. Chesterton