More quotes by G.K. Chesterton

"A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."
"A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them."
"Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms."
"That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."
"The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head."