Author of quotes: Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Page 1

The poor rebelled sometimes, and only against bad government, the rich - and always against any.

Friends love you for who you are; your wife loves you and wants to make you another person.

To read good books are useful because they allow us to become a "truly modern people."
Becoming "modern", we riveted themselves to the last prejudice; so, having spent last money on a fashionable hat, we condemn ourselves to old-fashioned. Road centuries are littered with the corpses of "truly modern people."

If we don't require roses redder to us than to others, the grass is greener, the sun brighter. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for they shall receive of the city and the mountains; blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Until we realize that the things that surround us, could not be, we won't understand what they are. Until we see darkness, we don't rate the light. When we see her light seem to us a dazzling, unexpected and beautiful. One of the countless and wild jokes, the truth is that we know nothing, until we understand his ignorance.

Difficult to be easy, easy - hard.

Democracy means the rule of the uneducated, aristocracy - the rule is poorly educated.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also our enemies; probably because it's mostly the same people.

If you don't understand man, you have no right to judge him, but if realized, may not wish to do so.

You can understand the cosmos, but not yourself; the distance between the actual man and his inner self is sometimes greater than the distance to the stars.

The man who eats caviar because he wanted more simplicity than that eating barley flakes out of principle.

The killer kills a man, and suicide - humanity.
(The killer kills a man, and suicide - all people).

Who does not believe in God, he begins to believe in everything.

Education - the period during which You are taught by someone who You don't know what You don't want to know.

Normal view of madness is deceptive: a person loses is not logic; it loses everything except logic.