G.K. CHESTERTON

The American Chesterton Society

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday

The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wallpaper, he gets a divorce.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

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