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Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The simplification of anything is always sensational.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.