Gilbert K. Chesterton Saint Quotations

The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.