A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives… — 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
It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously:… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have… — 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
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
