“But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will kill you? That is what tries the nerves, abstraction combined with cruelty. Men have felt it sometimes when they went through wild forests, and… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It's just because I have picked a little about mystics that I have no use for mystagogues. Real mystics don't hide mysteries, they reveal… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The history of the thing might amuse you," he said. "When first I became one of the New Anarchists I tried all kinds of… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." - On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered, 1908” — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“People who lose all their charity generally lose all their logic.” — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction where it was never meant to be. A… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I mean,' he said with increasing vehemence, 'that if there be a house for me in heaven it will either have a green lamp-post… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will kill you? That is what tries the nerves,… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The world will never be safe for democracy—it is a dangerous trade” — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I was suddenly possessed with the idea that the blind, blank back of his head really was his face—an awful, eyeless face staring at… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But the reason we fly from the city is not in reality that it is not poetical; it is that its poetry is too… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If you try to talk about a truth that’s merely moral, people always think it’s merely metaphorical. A real live man with two legs… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Let me take once again a rough parable. Suppose I advertised in the papers that I had a place for any one who was… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
