Quotes by G K Chesterton

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

#Retirement

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as...

#Ethics, #Freedom, #Rightm

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle...

#Education, #Mankind

Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke

#Marriage

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

#Marriage

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it...

#Mind

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.

#Adventure

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly...

#Apologies, #Insults

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be...

#Architecture

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up....

#Compromise

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern...

#Conservatism

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave...

#Country, #Speech