Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

— G. K. Chesterton

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.

— G. K. Chesterton

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

— G. K. Chesterton

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.

— G. K. Chesterton

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

— G. K. Chesterton

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

— G. K. Chesterton

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

— G. K. Chesterton

Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

— G. K. Chesterton

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.

— G. K. Chesterton

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality because reality is a spirit.

— G. K. Chesterton