“Take away the supernatural, and what remains is the unnatural.” — G.K. Chesterton Miracles Copy Share Image
“Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.” — G.K. Chesterton Irreligion Copy Share Image
“All roads lead to Rome; which is one reason why many people never get there.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.” — G.K. Chesterton Comedy Copy Share Image
“The glory of heaven deepened and darkened around the sublime vulgarity of man;” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“curiously enough, it is the man who likes things as they are who really makes them better. The” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“All right,” said Father Brown. “I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland. I only said it was always dangerous.” — G.K. Chesterton Parenting Copy Share Image
“Father Brown: I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland, I only said it was always dangerous.” — G.K. Chesterton Fairyland Copy Share Image
“Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.” — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.” — G.K. Chesterton Catholic Copy Share Image
“The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as because it cannot recover the normal.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.” — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is… — G.K. Chesterton Cats Copy Share Image
“Nothing is important except the fate of the soul; and literature is only redeemed from an utter triviality ... by the fact… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“There was one special thing you promised me at the beginning of the affair, and which you have certainly given me by… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to… — G.K. Chesterton Apples Copy Share Image
“These men were conscious of the Fall, if they were conscious of nothing else; and the same is true of all heathen… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But I thought you believed in miracles,’ broke out the secretary. ‘Yes,’ answered Father Brown, ‘I believe in miracles. I believe in… — G.K. Chesterton Believe in miracles Copy Share Image
“There is one thing that is infinitely more absurd and unpractical than burning a man for his philosophy. This is the habit… — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy Copy Share Image
“All the jokes about men sitting down on their hats are really theological jokes; they are concerned with the Dual Nature of… — G.K. Chesterton Dual nature Copy Share Image
“Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary… — G.K. Chesterton Health Copy Share Image
“It is in our own daily life that we are to look for the portents and the prodigies… Compared with this life,… — G.K. Chesterton Daily life Copy Share Image
“I perceive that it is far more practical to begin at the beginning and discuss theories. I see that the men who… — G.K. Chesterton Education Copy Share Image
“The Christian admits that the universe is manifold and even miscellaneous, just as a sane man knows that he is complex. The… — G.K. Chesterton Christian Copy Share Image
“most cannibalism is not a primitive or even a bestial habit. It is artificial and even artistic; a sort of art for… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“Jones had a dog; it had a chain; Not often worn, not causing pain; But, as the I.K.L. had passed Their 'Unleashed… — G.K. Chesterton Isle of wight Copy Share Image
“A radical does not mean a man who lives on radishes," remarked Crook, with some impatience; "and a Conservative does not mean… — G.K. Chesterton Socialist Copy Share Image
“We are perhaps permitted tragedy as a sort of merciful comedy: because the frantic energy of divine things would knock us down… — G.K. Chesterton Humor Copy Share Image
“He who weds the spirit of the times quickly becomes a widower.” — G.K. Chesterton Marriage Copy Share Image
“Angus...had hitherto maintained hilarious ease from motives of mental hygiene...” — G.K. Chesterton Angus Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you know that you are the King of England; but why do you care?” — G.K. Chesterton England Copy Share Image
“There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.” — G.K. Chesterton Denial Copy Share Image
“Dickens didn't write what people wanted. He wanted what people wanted.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A blind man may be picturesque; but it requires two eyes to see the picture.” — G.K. Chesterton Blind Copy Share Image
