How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it... — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The people who are most bigoted are those who have no conviction at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it. — 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
It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. — 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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced — 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
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free. — 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
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. — 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
