The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained… — 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
