A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image