Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

— G. K. Chesterton

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

— G. K. Chesterton

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.

— G. K. Chesterton

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

— G. K. Chesterton

The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited but was defined before it existed.

— G. K. Chesterton

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

— G. K. Chesterton

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

— G. K. Chesterton

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

— G. K. Chesterton

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

— G. K. Chesterton

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

— G. K. Chesterton