There is no harm in our criticizing foreigners, if only we would also criticize ourselves. In other words, the world might need even less of its new charity, if it had a little more of the old humility. — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and the contradiction along with them. His… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is no harm in our criticizing foreigners, if only we would also criticize ourselves. In other words, the world might need even less… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are more then true.Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Christianity is itself so jolly a thing that it fills the possessor of it with a certain silly exuberance, which sad and high-minded Rationalists… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
Modern art has to be what is called intense. it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
