Gilbert K. Chesterton Range Quotations

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.