World Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We must be fond of the world, even in order to change it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity;…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton