G. K. Chesterton

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”

“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.”

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”

“I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.”

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”