G.K. Chesterton

"It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands."

"Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality."

"That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."

"Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."

"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."

"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

"Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms."

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."

"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."

"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it."

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."

"There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable."

"I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward."

"All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either."

"Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle."

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."