“Babies need not to be taught a trade, but to be introduced to a world. To put the matter shortly, woman is… — G.K. Chesterton Catholic Copy Share Image
“By insisting specially on the immanence of God we get introspection, self-isolation, quietism, social indifference – Tibet. By insisting specially on the… — G.K. Chesterton Inside man Copy Share Image
“Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... But the thing is true; economy, properly understood, is the… — G.K. Chesterton Good woman Copy Share Image
“But when fundamentals are doubted, as at present, we must try to recover the candour and wonder of the child; the unspoilt… — G.K. Chesterton Childlike wonder Copy Share Image
“The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset. It… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“If a man prefers nothing I can give him nothing. But nearly all people I have ever met in this western society… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is merely a blank about the philosophy of toleration; and the average agnostic of recent times has really had… — G.K. Chesterton Agnostic Copy Share Image
“Pride is the downward drag of all things into an easy solemnity. One "settles down" into a sort of selfish seriousness; but… — G.K. Chesterton Pride Copy Share Image
“Man can hardly be defined, after the fashion of Carlyle, as an animal who makes tools; ants and beavers and many other… — G.K. Chesterton Dogmas Copy Share Image
“I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must always have been, being unfolded without… — G.K. Chesterton Creation Copy Share Image
“If a school of critics were found prepared to pay divine honours to a certain person while doubting whether he was divine,… — G.K. Chesterton Religion Copy Share Image
“Allied to this question is the kindred question on which we so often hear an innocent British boast--the fact that our statesmen… — G.K. Chesterton Real life Copy Share Image
“It was exactly the sort of person, like Joan of Arc, who did know why women wore skirts, who was most justified… — G.K. Chesterton Modern society Copy Share Image
“If the great paradox of Christianity means anything it means this- that we must take the crown in our hands, and go… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“Some stupid people started the idea that because women obviously back up their own people through everything, therefore women are blind and… — G.K. Chesterton Stupid people Copy Share Image
“I should say that there ought to be no war except religious war. If war is irreligious, it is immoral. No man… — G.K. Chesterton Ethics Copy Share Image
“We have all read in scientific books, and, indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has forgotten his name.… — G.K. Chesterton Amnesia Copy Share Image
“Everybody talks about foul dens and filthy slums in which crime can run riot; but it's just the other way. They are… — G.K. Chesterton Crime Copy Share Image
“Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is… — G.K. Chesterton Artist love Copy Share Image
“it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not only the type, but is the crown and flower of all actual… — G.K. Chesterton Aristocracy Copy Share Image
“You know I always liked you," said Fisher, quietly, "but I also respect you, which is not always the same thing. You… — G.K. Chesterton Good man Copy Share Image
“Why does each thing on the earth war against each other thing? Why does each small thing in the world have to… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchist Copy Share Image
“I don’t think you do,’ said Father Brown, with simplicity. ‘You say this thing was done by spiritual powers. What spiritual powers?… — G.K. Chesterton Parenting Copy Share Image
“The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is… — G.K. Chesterton Eugenics Copy Share Image
“We are fond of talking about 'liberty'; but the way we end up actually talking of it is an attempt to avoid… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“I want to adore the world, not as one likes a looking-glass, because it is one’s self, but as one loves a… — G.K. Chesterton Fall in love Copy Share Image
“All the towering materialism which dominates the modern mind rests ultimately upon one assumption; a false assumption. It is supposed that if… — G.K. Chesterton Every morning Copy Share Image
“For our Titanic purposes of faith and revolution, what we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise,… — G.K. Chesterton Anger Copy Share Image
“Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to… — G.K. Chesterton Guilt Copy Share Image
“A man who says that no patriot should attack the [war] until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is… — G.K. Chesterton Friendship Copy Share Image
“It is inspiriting without doubt to whizz in a motor-car round the earth, to feel Arabia as a whirl of sand or… — G.K. Chesterton Arabia Copy Share Image
“I do not, in my private capacity, believe that a baby gets his best physical food by sucking his thumb; nor that… — G.K. Chesterton Food Copy Share Image
“We must make the intellectual world safe for democracy. But in the conditions of modern mental anarchy, neither that nor any other… — G.K. Chesterton Bible Copy Share Image
“If better conditions will make the poor more fit to govern themselves, why should not better conditions already make the rich more… — G.K. Chesterton Christian church Copy Share Image
“There are some people, nevertheless — and I am one of them — who think that the most practical and important thing… — G.K. Chesterton Astronomy Copy Share Image
“The curious culture of the modern suburb will believe anything it is told in the papers about the wickedness of the Pope,… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“Sirs, I am but a nameless man, A rhymester without a home, Yet since I come of the Wessex clay And carry… — G.K. Chesterton Heathen Copy Share Image
“But in order that life should be a story or romance to us, it is necessary that a great part of it,… — G.K. Chesterton Life Copy Share Image
“But the whole modern world, or at any rate the whole modern Press, has a perpetual and consuming terror of plain morals.… — G.K. Chesterton Journalism Copy Share Image
![“A man who says that no patriot should attack the [war] until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it. But there is an anti-patriot who honestly angers honest men…he is the uncandid candid friend…” quote by G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1e6/g-k-chesterton-224_friendship_a-man-who-says-that-no-patriot-should-at_1405575.jpg)
