More quotes by G.K. Chesterton

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read."
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
"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."
"But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it."