“Inside I am really bursting with boyish merriment; but I acted the paralytic Professor so well, that now I can't leave off.” — G.K. Chesterton Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
“He spoke in that sweet and steely voice which he reserved for great occasions and practiced for hours together in his bedroom.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.” — G.K. Chesterton Book Copy Share Image
“My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it… — G.K. Chesterton Brain Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind… — G.K. Chesterton Poetry Copy Share Image
“I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments… — G.K. Chesterton Arguments Copy Share Image
“the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.” — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy Copy Share Image
“The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it… — G.K. Chesterton Inspirational Copy Share Image
“We must not hate humanity, or despise humanity, or refuse to help humanity; but we must not trust humanity; in the sense… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It… — G.K. Chesterton Every morning Copy Share Image
“Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only… — G.K. Chesterton Common sense Copy Share Image
“The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: that people do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“He is a man, I think," he said, "who cares for nothing but a joke. He is a dangerous man." Lambert laughed… — G.K. Chesterton Danger Copy Share Image
“I have never understood them," he said. "Those two creatures I see everywhere, stumping along the ground, first one and then the… — G.K. Chesterton Animals Copy Share Image
“What are blue-stockings?' asked Tommy. Naturally you don't know,' replied the other. 'If you did, you would sympathize more with Bluebeard. They… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Liberalism has been degraded into liberality. Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb. The Jacobin could… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“If the moderns really want a simple religion of love, they must look for it in the Athanasian Creed. The truth is… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“wish to deal with my most distinguished contemporaries, not personally or in a merely literary manner, but in relation to the real… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Graham of Claverhouse, you know, who persecuted the Covenanters and had a black horse that could ride straight up a precipice. Don’t… — G.K. Chesterton Quiet man Copy Share Image
“I do not admit that theological points are small points. Theology is only thought applied to religion; and those who prefer a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“My own general thesis was somewhat to this effect: that Artists have worried the world by being wantonly, needlessly, and gratuitously progressive.… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he's realised exactly how much right… — G.K. Chesterton Criminals Copy Share Image
“When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.” — G.K. Chesterton Beginning Copy Share Image
“Weak things must boast of being new, like so many new German philosophies. But strong things can boast of being old.” — G.K. Chesterton Strength Copy Share Image
“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In short, there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss.” — G.K. Chesterton Coincidence Copy Share Image
“War in the wide modern sense, is possible, not because more men disagree, but because more men agree.” — G.K. Chesterton Peace Copy Share Image
“The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and the more a man learns a thing,… — G.K. Chesterton Learning Copy Share Image
“The romantic seeks only to get his head into the heavens. The rationalist seeks to get the heavens into his head –… — G.K. Chesterton Rationalist Copy Share Image
“The pessimist can be enraged at wrong; but only the optimist can be surprised at it.” — G.K. Chesterton Optimism Copy Share Image
“But there are some people, nevertheless—and I am one of them—who think that the most practical and important thing about a man… — G.K. Chesterton People Copy Share Image
“he sometimes felt himself to be a painfully prosaic person, but by the same token he knew he was incurably sane.” — G.K. Chesterton Humor Copy Share Image
“To each man one soul only is given; to each soul only is given a little power - the power at some… — G.K. Chesterton Soul Copy Share Image
“sin -- a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or no man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“She was not in the least afraid of loneliness, because she was not afraid of devils. I think they were afraid of… — G.K. Chesterton Fear Copy Share Image
“I am not good at deception,' said Tuesday gloomily, flushing. Right, my boy, right,' said the President with a ponderous heartiness, 'You… — G.K. Chesterton Deception Copy Share Image
“There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is that he certainly will not work.” — G.K. Chesterton Humor Copy Share Image
