We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Research is the search of people who don't know what they want. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. — 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
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing… — 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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents. — 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
People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people. — 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
