Modern art has to be what is called intense. it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong. — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and the contradiction along with them. His… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is no harm in our criticizing foreigners, if only we would also criticize ourselves. In other words, the world might need even less… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are more then true.Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Christianity is itself so jolly a thing that it fills the possessor of it with a certain silly exuberance, which sad and high-minded Rationalists… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
Modern art has to be what is called intense. it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
