If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
No man must be superior to the things that are common to men… Not only are we all in the same boat,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions -… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
