“Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“mankind have hitherto held the bond between man and woman so sacred, and the effect of it on the children so incalculable,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I earnestly hope that all children will spoil this book by painting the illustrations. I wanted to do this myself but the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear… — G.K. Chesterton 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 Copy Share Image
“Buddhism seeks after God with the largest conception it can find, the all-producing and all-absorbing One; Christianity seeks after God with the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not… — G.K. Chesterton 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 Copy Share Image
“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting; a child always stands for the good militarism as against the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A Second Childhood.” When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton 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 the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton 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 offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton 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 Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton 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 to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
