“A joke is by its nature a protest against sense. It is no good attacking nonsense for being successfully nonsensical.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Can you not see," I said, "that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is inspiriting without doubt to whizz in a motor-car round the earth, to feel Arabia as a whirl of sand or… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind; as the sanity of the Old Testament truly said,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I see everything," he cried, "everything that there is. Why does each thing on the earth war against each other thing? Why… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“To be in a romance is to be in uncongenial surroundings. To be born into this earth is to be born into… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.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 probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
