G. K. Chesterton

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.