“I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy, like a bird in spring.” — G.K. Chesterton Wrong place Copy Share Image
“He asks all the questions that there are, and some that there aren't” — G.K. Chesterton Asks Copy Share Image
“Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo goo Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo Googly, googly, googly goo: That’s how we fill a column.” — G.K. Chesterton Column Copy Share Image
“We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and… — G.K. Chesterton Brotherhood of man Copy Share Image
“The duty of the artist lies in keeping alive a sense of wonder in the world.” — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“he sometimes felt himself to be a painfully prosaic person, but by the same token he knew he was incurably sane.” — G.K. Chesterton Humor Copy Share Image
“They stoned the false prophets, it is said; but they could have stoned true prophets with a greater and juster enjoyment.” — G.K. Chesterton False prophets Copy Share Image
“Weak things must boast of being new, like so many new German philosophies. But strong things can boast of being old.” — G.K. Chesterton Strength Copy Share Image
“Charity means pardoning what is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind… — G.K. Chesterton Poetry Copy Share Image
“He spoke in that sweet and steely voice which he reserved for great occasions and practiced for hours together in his bedroom.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Inside I am really bursting with boyish merriment; but I acted the paralytic Professor so well, that now I can't leave off.” — G.K. Chesterton Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
“a man is not really convinced of a philosophic theory when he finds that something proves it. He is only really convinced… — G.K. Chesterton Philosophic Copy Share Image
“Our existence may not be an intelligible justice, or even a recognizable wrong. But our existence is still a story. In the… — G.K. Chesterton Existence Copy Share Image
“We will have have the dead at our councils. The ancient Greeks voted by stones; these shall vote by tombstones. It is… — G.K. Chesterton Ancient greek Copy Share Image
“Who would condescend to strike down the mere things he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like… — G.K. Chesterton Bravado Copy Share Image
“I know the Unknown God," said the little priest, with an unconscious grandeur of certitude that stood up like a granite tower.… — G.K. Chesterton Satan Copy Share Image
“I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that happen here do… — G.K. Chesterton Earth Copy Share Image
“To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch… — G.K. Chesterton Fitness Copy Share Image
“Who are you?' he asked suddenly. I'm not sure,' replied the other. 'I rather think I am your long-lost brother.' But I… — G.K. Chesterton Brother Copy Share Image
“Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which you are accustomed to seeing or hearing… — G.K. Chesterton Desensitization Copy Share Image
“Most of the women were of the kind vaguely called emancipated, and professed some protest against male supremacy. Yet these new women… — G.K. Chesterton Feminism Copy Share Image
“It is constantly assured, especially in our Tolstoyan tendencies, that when the lion lies down with the lamb the lion becomes lamb-like.… — G.K. Chesterton Lion Copy Share Image
“Thought only destroys because it broadens. A man’s brain is a bomb,” he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking… — G.K. Chesterton Brain Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can… — G.K. Chesterton Internationalism Copy Share Image
“A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“For most people there is a fascinating inconsistency in the position of St. Francis. He expressed in loftier and bolder language than… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of… — G.K. Chesterton Artificial Copy Share Image
“No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on… — G.K. Chesterton Ordinary man Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or… — G.K. Chesterton Reformer Copy Share Image
“A man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice. He can only… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
“But in order that life should be a story or romance to us, it is necessary that a great part of it,… — G.K. Chesterton Life Copy Share Image
