“We are the enemies of society, for society is the enemy of humanity.” — G.K. Chesterton Community Copy Share Image
“Moderation is not a compromise; moderation is a passion; the passion of great judges.” — G.K. Chesterton Moderation Copy Share Image
“All roads lead to Rome; which is one reason why many people never get there.” — G.K. Chesterton Road Copy Share Image
“A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe.” — G.K. Chesterton Physics Copy Share Image
“Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness.” — G.K. Chesterton Confidence Copy Share Image
“The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of… — G.K. Chesterton Evil Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Giants Copy Share Image
“Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal; the shock of beauty is when the irresistible force hits the immovable post.” — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening "Do it again" to the… — G.K. Chesterton Every morning Copy Share Image
“There is a certain solid use in fools. It is not so much that they rush in where angels fear to tread,… — G.K. Chesterton Foolishness Copy Share Image
“Take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages.” — G.K. Chesterton Courage Copy Share Image
“Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years.” — G.K. Chesterton Glass Copy Share Image
“Men have not got tired of Christianity; they have never found enough Christianity to get tired of. Men have never wearied of… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately he was one of those who always tend to take their own fancies seriously; and in whose otherwise legitimate extravagance there… — G.K. Chesterton Extravagance 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 Bluebeard Copy Share Image
“Every man, however wise, who begins by worshipping success, must end in mere mediocrity. This strange and paradoxical fate is involved, not… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“I mean that God bade me love one spot and serve it, and do all things however wild in praise of it,… — G.K. Chesterton Paradise Copy Share Image
“It is to be feared that about a hundred detective stories have begun with the discovery that an American millionaire has been… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The common conception among the dregs of Darwinian culture is that men have slowly worked their way out of inequality into a… — G.K. Chesterton Darwinian Copy Share Image
“In a word, God paints in many colors; but he never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when… — G.K. Chesterton Color Copy Share Image
“Have they [the agnostics] produced in their universality anything grander or more beautiful than the things uttered by the fierce Ghibbeline Catholic,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“This very pride in keeping his word was that he was keeping it to miscreants. It was his last triumph over these… — G.K. Chesterton Dark room Copy Share Image
“I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things… — G.K. Chesterton Architecture Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests… — G.K. Chesterton Authority 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
“Both aristocracy and democracy are human ideals: the one saying that all men are valuable, the other that some men are more… — G.K. Chesterton Aristocracy Copy Share Image
“Estates are sometimes held by foolish forms, the breaking of a stick or the payment of a peppercorn. I was willing to… — G.K. Chesterton Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on… — G.K. Chesterton Business Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I… — G.K. Chesterton Frame of mind Copy Share Image
“In most cases the name is unpoetical, although the fact is poetical. In the case of Smith, the name is so poetical… — G.K. Chesterton Nature Copy Share Image
“There has appeared in our time a particular class of books and articles which I sincerely and solemnly think may be called… — G.K. Chesterton Books 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
“Nine times out of ten a man’s broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This is not particularly paradoxical; it is,… — G.K. Chesterton Broad mindedness Copy Share Image
“I could not understand why these romancers never took the trouble to find out a few elementary facts about the thing they… — G.K. Chesterton Anti-catholicism Copy Share Image
![“Have they [the agnostics] produced in their universality anything grander or more beautiful than the things uttered by the fierce Ghibbeline Catholic, by the rigid Puritan schoolmaster? We know that they have produced only a few roundels. Milton does not merely beat them at his piety, he beats…” quote by G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b63/g-k-chesterton-224_quote_have-they-the-agnostics-produced-in-thei_633557.jpg)
