How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it... — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. — 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
Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. — 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
The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read… — 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
There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own… — 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
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
Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we… — 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
Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to… — 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
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
"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good… — 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
If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing. — 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
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) . — 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
If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other… — 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
If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle. — 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
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
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
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
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
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
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
