“Without the family, we are helpless before the State.” — G.K. Chesterton Catholicism Copy Share Image
“He defended respectability with violence and exaggeration.” — G.K. Chesterton Conservatism Copy Share Image
“There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.” — G.K. Chesterton Prison Copy Share Image
“Change is about the narrowest and hardest groove that a man can get into.” — G.K. Chesterton Change Copy Share Image
“He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments. It” — G.K. Chesterton Commandments Copy Share Image
“curiously enough, it is the man who likes things as they are who really makes them better. The” — G.K. Chesterton Things Really Copy Share Image
“It is one thing to believe in witches, and quite another to believe in witch-smellers.” — G.K. Chesterton Politics Copy Share Image
“Father Brown: I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland, I only said it was always dangerous.” — G.K. Chesterton Fairyland Copy Share Image
“for the definition of a law is: something that can be broken” — G.K. Chesterton Broken Copy Share Image
“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the… — G.K. Chesterton Mathematics Copy Share Image
“I do not think that under modern Western materialism we should have anarchy. I doubt whether we should have enough individual valour… — G.K. Chesterton Freedom Copy Share Image
“And he set to rhyme his ale-measures, And he sang aloud his laws, Because of the joy of giants, The joy without… — G.K. Chesterton Laws Joy Copy Share Image
“Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out.” — G.K. Chesterton Chesterton Copy Share Image
“All right,” said Father Brown. “I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland. I only said it was always dangerous.” — G.K. Chesterton Parenting Copy Share Image
“I merely declare my independence. I merely claim my choice of all the tools in the universe; and I shall not admit… — G.K. Chesterton Freedom Copy Share Image
“A religion is not the church a man goes to but the cosmos he lives in; and if any sceptic forgets it,… — G.K. Chesterton Catholic Copy Share Image
“All men are tragic...All men are comic...Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“He thought his detective brain as good as the criminal's, which was true. But he fully realised the disadvantage. "The criminal is… — G.K. Chesterton Coffee cup Copy Share Image
“A radical does not mean a man who lives on radishes," remarked Crook, with some impatience; "and a Conservative does not mean… — G.K. Chesterton Socialist Copy Share Image
“We are perhaps permitted tragedy as a sort of merciful comedy: because the frantic energy of divine things would knock us down… — G.K. Chesterton Humor Copy Share Image
“There was one special thing you promised me at the beginning of the affair, and which you have certainly given me by… — G.K. Chesterton Promised Copy Share Image
“We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is… — G.K. Chesterton Cats Copy Share Image
“Nothing is important except the fate of the soul; and literature is only redeemed from an utter triviality ... by the fact… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“A waiter came swiftly along the room, and then stopped dead. His stoppage was as silent as his tread; but all those… — G.K. Chesterton Waiter Copy Share Image
“Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“Jones had a dog; it had a chain; Not often worn, not causing pain; But, as the I.K.L. had passed Their 'Unleashed… — G.K. Chesterton Isle of wight Copy Share Image
“A Second Childhood.” When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not… — G.K. Chesterton Childhood Copy Share Image
“It is true that this general truth was hidden from many by certain definite assertions. I can only call them, in simple… — G.K. Chesterton Anti-catholicism Copy Share Image
“I hold it clear, therefore, if anything is clear about the business, that the Eugenists do not merely mean that the mass… — G.K. Chesterton Breeding 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 Astronomy 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… — G.K. Chesterton Ask yourself Copy Share Image
“While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in… — G.K. Chesterton Evolution Copy Share Image
“It stated that Rome tolerates, in her relation with the Russian Uniats, "strange heresies and even bearded and wedded clergy." In that… — G.K. Chesterton Anti-catholicism Copy Share Image
