A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously:… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower. — 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
