“There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Whenever he gives advice it is always something as startling as an epigram, and yet as practical as the Bank of England.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Our age is obviously the Nonsense Age; the wiser sort of nonsense being provided for the children and the sillier sort of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The wise men know what wicked things are written on the sky; They trim sad lamps, they touch sad strings, hearing the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen. …there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people on… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Where does a wise man hide a pebble?" And the tall man answered in a low voice: "On the beach." The small… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Every man, however wise, who begins by worshipping success, must end in mere mediocrity. This strange and paradoxical fate is involved, not… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The Fear of the Lord, that is the beginning of wisdom, and therefore belongs to the beginnings, and is felt in the… — 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
