Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.

I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it.

Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing

Reality has a way of asserting itself.

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

Illusions are bound to be shattered

To keep your actions and your plans secret always has been a very good thing . .. Marcus Crassus said to one who asked him when he was going to move the army: 'Do you believe that you will be the only one not to hear the trumpet?

Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.

War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.

I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

The more you look at the death penalty, that's where you see that we're actually not killing the worst of the worst. We're killing the poorest of the poor. Where actually one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed is how many resources they have to defend themselves.

We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted.

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.