Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains. — 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
To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. — 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
The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic. — 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
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