“Let me take once again a rough parable. Suppose I advertised in the papers that I had a place for any one who was too stupid to be a clerk. Probably I should receive no replies; possibly one. Possibly also… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It's just because I have picked a little about mystics that I have no use for mystagogues. Real mystics don't hide mysteries, they reveal them. They set a thing up in broad daylight, and when you've seen it it's still a mystery. But the mystagogues hide a thing in darkness and secrecy, and when you find it, it's a platitude.” — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share
“The history of the thing might amuse you," he said. "When first I became one of the New Anarchists I tried all kinds of respectable disguises. I dressed up as a bishop. I read up all about bishops in our anarchist pamphlets, in Superstition the Vampire and Priests of Prey. I certainly understood from them that bishops are strange and… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share
“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." - On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered, 1908” — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share
“People who lose all their charity generally lose all their logic.” — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction where it was never meant to be. A… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I mean,' he said with increasing vehemence, 'that if there be a house for me in heaven it will either have a green lamp-post… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will kill you? That is what tries the nerves,… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The world will never be safe for democracy—it is a dangerous trade” — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I was suddenly possessed with the idea that the blind, blank back of his head really was his face—an awful, eyeless face staring at… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
