'The cosmos went on forever, but it was only an inch wide.'Father Brown
'Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.'Father Brown
'To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.'G.K. Chesterton
'It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.'G.K. Chesterton
'You may remember the old man who fished all day without catching anything.'Father Brown
'A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.'G.K. Chesterton
'I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.'G.K. Chesterton
'One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.'G.K. Chesterton
'The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.'G.K. Chesterton
'We are learning to do a great many clever things…The next great task will be to learn not to do them.'G.K. Chesterton
'The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht.'G.K. Chesterton
'The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.'G.K. Chesterton
'Once I thought that the causes of war were largely economic. I came to see that economic causes are not even the half of it.'Father Brown
'I was trained to be a priest, and in our church, as you know, we are trained never to speak ill of the dead.'Father Brown
'Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.'G.K. Chesterton
'The detective story differs from every story in this: that the reader is only happy if he feels a fool.'G.K. Chesterton
'The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.'G.K. Chesterton
'It is awful to contemplate, but if the Church were not Divine she would not have survived her own common sense.'Father Brown
'But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.'G.K. Chesterton
'Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.'G.K. Chesterton
'The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.'G.K. Chesterton
'An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.'G.K. Chesterton
'Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.'G.K. Chesterton
'Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.'G.K. Chesterton
'The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.'G.K. Chesterton
'The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. But he can also mend himself.'G.K. Chesterton
'There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.'G.K. Chesterton
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.'G.K. Chesterton