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
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so. — 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
You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But,… — 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
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) . — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is… — 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
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
