“Conjurer: Oh, I don't mind anyone knowing everything, Miss Carleon. There is something that is much more important than knowing how a thing is done. Morris: And what's that? Conjurer: Knowing how to do it.” — G K Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Conjurer: Oh, I don't mind anyone knowing everything, Miss Carleon. There is something that is much more important than knowing how a thing is… — G K Chesterton Copy Share
The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks… — G K Chesterton Copy Share
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul — G K Chesterton Copy Share
“The eternal and essential truth is that until we love a thing in all its ugliness we cannot make it beautiful.” — G K Chesterton Copy Share
“Now against the specialist, against the man who studies only art or electricity, or the violin, or the thumbscrew or what not, there is… — G K Chesterton Copy Share
“believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter . . . a man will certainly fail, because he believes in… — G K Chesterton Copy Share
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed… — G K Chesterton Copy Share
If an angel out of heaven Brings you other things to drink, Thank him for his kind attentions, Go and pour them down the… — G K Chesterton Copy Share
Just going to church doesn't make you a christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car. — G K Chesterton Copy Share
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work. — G K Chesterton Copy Share
