I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton