One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis. — 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
They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing. — 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
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight. — 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
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised. — 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
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. — 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
