G.K. Chesterton – Truth in Quotes

Quotes from G.K. Chesterton

Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.