“Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.” — G.K. Chesterton Dead people Copy Share Image
“A saint is long past any desire for distinction; he is the only sort of superior man who has never been a… — G.K. Chesterton Saint Copy Share Image
“Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you?” — G.K. Chesterton Happiness Copy Share Image
“The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God.” — G.K. Chesterton Bible Copy Share Image
“He had the notion that because I am a clergyman I should believe anything. Many people have little notions of that kind.… — G.K. Chesterton Clergyman Copy Share Image
“Weak if we were and foolish, not thus we failed, not thus; When that black Baal blocked the heavens he had no… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“And the second as an old man might say it about the weather; not without sincerity but certainly without fervour.” — G.K. Chesterton Old man Copy Share Image
“You say you are a poet of law; I saw you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not… — G.K. Chesterton Contradiction Copy Share Image
“I am told that the Japanese method of wrestling consists not of suddenly pressing, but of suddenly giving way. This is one… — G.K. Chesterton Japanese Copy Share Image
“A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice… — G.K. Chesterton Amateurs Copy Share Image
“Reason is always reasonable, even in the last limbo, in the lost borderland of all things. I know that people charge the… — G.K. Chesterton Nature Copy Share Image
“The transition from the good man to the saint is a sort of revolution; by which one for whom all things illustrate… — G.K. Chesterton Good man Copy Share Image
“But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit… — G.K. Chesterton Habits Copy Share Image
“Now in history there is no Revolution that is not a Restoration. Among the many things that leave me doubtful about the… — G.K. Chesterton Habits Copy Share Image
“We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Odd, isn't it," he said, "that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is… — G.K. Chesterton Business Copy Share Image
“Much of our modern difficulty, in religion and other things, arises merely from this: that we confuse the word "indefinable" with the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Well, hang it all,’ he said, ‘he was only an atheist.’ ‘I’m afraid I don’t know what you mean,’ said the Inspector,… — G.K. Chesterton Ten commandments Copy Share Image
“Rossetti makes the remark somewhere, bitterly but with great truth, that the worst moment for the atheist is when he is really… — G.K. Chesterton Atheist Copy Share Image
“The vision which has been so faintly suggested in these pages has never been confined to monks or even to friars. It… — G.K. Chesterton Dreams Copy Share Image
“All the great groups that stood about the Cross represent in one way or another the great historical truth of the time;… — G.K. Chesterton Good friday Copy Share Image
“It will be said that a rational person accepts the world as mixed of good and evil with decent satisfaction and decent… — G.K. Chesterton Contentment Copy Share Image
“Father Brown was made of two men. There was a man of action, who was as modest as a primrose and as… — G.K. Chesterton Free thought Copy Share Image
“For the two things that a healthy person hates most between heaven and hell are a woman who is not dignified and… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.” — G.K. Chesterton Paradox Copy Share Image
“Stories of magic alone can express my sense that life is not only a pleasure but a kind of eccentric privilege.” — G.K. Chesterton Eccentric Copy Share Image
“What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“to be breakable is not the same as to be perishable. Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant; simply… — G.K. Chesterton Breakable Copy Share Image
“Of course sane people always thought the aim of marriage was the procreation of children to the glory of God or according… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing… — G.K. Chesterton Church Copy Share Image
“German soldiers look as if they despised you, but French soldiers as if they despised you and themselves even more that you.” — G.K. Chesterton German soldiers Copy Share Image
“There is only one thing that that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.” — G.K. Chesterton Courage Copy Share Image
“Americans... are the most idealistic people in the whole world. Their only danger is that the idealist can easily become the idolator.” — G.K. Chesterton America Copy Share Image
“modern people think that any one who makes himself slightly uncomfortable in public will immediately be uproariously popular.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We now have a strong desire for living combined with a strange carelessness about dying. We desire life like water and yet… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
“For those in whom a mere reaction has thus become an obsession, I do seriously recommend the imaginative effort of conceiving the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The gentlemen are up there, sare," he said. "They do talk and they do laugh at what they talk. They do say… — G.K. Chesterton Bombs Copy Share Image
“Really," said Gregory superciliously, "the examples you choose–" "I beg your pardon," said Syme grimly, "I thought we had abolished all conventions.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
