Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

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

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.