“Life (according to the faith) is very like a serial story in a magazine: life ends with the promise (or menace) "to… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a… — G.K. Chesterton Architecture Copy Share Image
“I can imagine no more successful and productive form of manufacture than that of making mountains out of molehills.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was something of relative freedom in that feudal gesture of the vow; for no man asks vows from slaves anymore than… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Wherever men are still theological there is still some chance of their being logical.” — G.K. Chesterton Catholic Copy Share Image
“His principle can be quite simply stated: he refuses to die while he is still alive.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“They twisted even decent sin to shapes not to be named: Men were ashamed of honour; but we were not ashamed.” — G.K. Chesterton Ashamed Copy Share Image
“But always, it has been truly said, the savage is talkative about his mythology and taciturn about his religion.” — G.K. Chesterton Religion Copy Share Image
“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the… — G.K. Chesterton Every morning Copy Share Image
“Every trace of the passionate plumage of the cloudy sunset had been swept away, and a naked moon stood in a naked… — G.K. Chesterton Daylight Copy Share Image
“If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance." "Eh?" said Syme, staring. "The soldier must be… — G.K. Chesterton Anger Copy Share Image
“It is to be feared that about a hundred detective stories have begun with the discovery that an American millionaire has been… — G.K. Chesterton Detective stories Copy Share Image
“The wise men know what wicked things are written on the sky; They trim sad lamps, they touch sad strings, hearing the… — G.K. Chesterton Wisdom Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately he was one of those who always tend to take their own fancies seriously; and in whose otherwise legitimate extravagance there… — G.K. Chesterton Extravagance Copy Share Image
“A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. The First Effect I should say the first effect of the triumph of the… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“But you will admit I kept my promise; I have shown you something in the village considerably more creepy than a corpse;… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Flambeau, once the most famous criminal in France and later a very private detective in England, had long retired from both professions.… — G.K. Chesterton Large family Copy Share Image
“Very deep things in our nature, some dim sense of the dependence of great things upon small, some dark suggestion that the… — G.K. Chesterton Metaphors Copy Share Image
“But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be… — G.K. Chesterton Modern man Copy Share Image
“It is a good thing for a man to live in a family for the same reason that it is a good… — G.K. Chesterton Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to… — G.K. Chesterton Belief Copy Share Image
“Let me explain a little: Certain things are bad so far as they go, such as pain, and no one, not even… — G.K. Chesterton Good enough Copy Share Image
“The last lingering shadow of the Jesuit, gliding behind curtains and concealing himself in cupboards, faded from my young life about the… — G.K. Chesterton Catholicism Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing to remember about our time, of course, is simply that it is a time- we all instinctively think of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“For the moral basis, it is obvious that man's ethical responsibility varies with his knowledge of consequences” — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“Nonsense!' said Gregory, who was very rational when anyone else attempted paradox.” — G.K. Chesterton Paradox Copy Share Image
“The chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“a man is not really convinced of a philosophic theory when he finds that something proves it. He is only really convinced… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerness in eating and drinking.” — G.K. Chesterton Comradeship Copy Share Image
“The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“You irritate me sublimely. What can it be in me? Is it the relic of a moral sense?” — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo goo Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo Googly, googly, googly goo: That’s how we fill a column.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Would you be so obliging as to tell me whose house this is?’ “'Mine,’ said the burglar, 'May I present you to… — G.K. Chesterton Burglar Copy Share Image
“We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and… — G.K. Chesterton Brotherhood of man Copy Share Image
“for a large lemon moon was only just setting in the forest of high grass above their heads,” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Here dies another day During which I have had eyes, ears, hands And the great world round me; And with tomorrow begins… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is incomprehensible to me that any thinker can calmly call himself a modernist; he might as well call himself a Thursdayite.” — G.K. Chesterton Modernist Copy Share Image
“A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread… — G.K. Chesterton Dirty water Copy Share Image
“I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy, like a bird in spring.” — G.K. Chesterton Wrong place Copy Share Image
