“The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion, they begin to care more for ambition than for education.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Why is it," he asked vaguely, "that I think you are quite a decent fellow? Why do I positively like you, Gregory?"… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“That a story has been told all over the place at some time or other, not only does not prove that it… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“And under all this vast illusion of the cosmopolitan planet, with its empires and its Reuter's agency, the real life of man… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The old tyrants invoked the past; the new tyrants will invoke the future evolution has produced the snail and the owl; evolution… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I have never been able to understand where people got the idea that democracy was in some way opposed to tradition. It… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In the best Utopia, I must be prepared for the moral fall of any man in any position at any moment; especially… — 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
