“Each thing that obeys law [has] the glory and isolation of the anarchist.” — G.K. Chesterton Anarchist Copy Share Image
“The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant.” — G.K. Chesterton Addiction Copy Share Image
“I could forgive you even your cruelty if it were not for your calm.” — G.K. Chesterton Calm Copy Share Image
“He asks all the questions that there are, and some that there aren't” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late” — G.K. Chesterton History Copy Share Image
“My best friends are all either bottomless skeptics or quite uncontrollable believers . . . .” — G.K. Chesterton Best friend Copy Share Image
“Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed: a passage which some have considered as a prophecy of modern… — G.K. Chesterton Prophecy Copy Share Image
“Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief,… — G.K. Chesterton Modern literature Copy Share Image
“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not quite coward enough to admire it.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I don't want the universe broken up just yet," drawled the Marquis. "I want to do a lot of beastly things before… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We ought not give ourselves the benefit of the doubt if we plan on doubting everything else.” — G.K. Chesterton Benefit of the doubt Copy Share Image
“A man who is perpetually thinking of whether this race or that race is strong, of whether this cause or that cause… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when… — G.K. Chesterton Crisis Copy Share Image
“Where does a wise man hide a pebble?" And the tall man answered in a low voice: "On the beach." The small… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid...who would condescend to strike down the mere things that… — G.K. Chesterton Fear Copy Share Image
“Then the small man suddenly ran after them and said: "I want to get my haircut. I say, do you know a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and… — G.K. Chesterton Camaraderie Copy Share Image
“Job was comfortless before the speech of Jehovah and is comforted after it. He has been told nothing, but he feels the… — G.K. Chesterton Communication Copy Share Image
“it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The… — G.K. Chesterton Comedy Copy Share Image
“The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world… — G.K. Chesterton Dead man Copy Share Image
“The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to… — G.K. Chesterton Optimist Copy Share Image
“The very rationalists who jeer at the trial by combat, in the old feudal ordeal, do in fact accept a trial by… — G.K. Chesterton History Copy Share Image
“The materialist philosophy (whether true or not) is certainly much more limiting than any religion. In one sense, of course, all intelligent… — G.K. Chesterton Christian atheist Copy Share Image
“They are constantly colonists and emigrants ; they have the name of being at home in every country. But they are in… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical… — G.K. Chesterton Poetical Copy Share Image
“Well, you have said that you were quite certain I was not a serious anarchist. Does this place strike you as being… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“He walked on the Embankment once under a dark red sunset. The red river reflected the red sky, and they both reflected… — G.K. Chesterton Sunsets Copy Share Image
“Of all horrible religions the most horrible is the worship of hte god within.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The duty of the artist lies in keeping alive a sense of wonder in the world.” — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“but for me all good things come to a point, swords for instance.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.” — G.K. Chesterton Appreciation Copy Share Image
“Moderation is not a compromise; moderation is a passion; the passion of great judges.” — G.K. Chesterton Moderation Copy Share Image
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