“It's just because I have picked a little about mystics that I have no use for mystagogues. Real mystics don't hide mysteries,… — G. K. Chesterton Christian Copy Share Image
“The history of the thing might amuse you," he said. "When first I became one of the New Anarchists I tried all… — G. K. Chesterton Disguise Copy Share Image
“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." - On Running After Ones Hat, All… — G. K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“In every society, the rich are the scum of the earth.” — G. K. Chesterton Community Copy Share Image
“People who lose all their charity generally lose all their logic.” — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction where it was never meant to… — G. K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“I mean,' he said with increasing vehemence, `that if there be a house for me in heaven it will either have a… — G. K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will kill you? That is what tries… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The world will never be safe for democracy—it is a dangerous trade” — G. K. Chesterton Democracy Copy Share Image
“The most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door.” — G. K. Chesterton Door Copy Share Image
“I was suddenly possessed with the idea that the blind, blank back of his head really was his face—an awful, eyeless face… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But the reason we fly from the city is not in reality that it is not poetical; it is that its poetry… — G. K. Chesterton Poetry Copy Share Image
“If you try to talk about a truth that’s merely moral, people always think it’s merely metaphorical. A real live man with… — G. K. Chesterton Father-brown Copy Share Image
“Let me take once again a rough parable. Suppose I advertised in the papers that I had a place for any one… — G. K. Chesterton Clever Copy Share Image
“We deny the snobbish English assumption that the uneducated are the dangerous criminals. We remember the Roman Emperors. We remember the great… — G. K. Chesterton Anarchism Copy Share Image
“In the modern world, we are primarily confronted with the extraordinary spectacle of people turning to new ideals because they have not… — G. K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already, but that God could… — G. K. Chesterton Breaking point Copy Share Image
“I scarcely ever," he said, with an unconscious and colossal arrogance, "hear of anything on the face of the earth that I… — G. K. Chesterton Nature Copy Share Image
“Killed a policeman? How Vegetarian! Well, I suppose it was, so long as they didn't eat him.” — G. K. Chesterton Humor Copy Share Image
“I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroes--epic on epic, Iliad on Iliad, and you… — G. K. Chesterton Earth and sky Copy Share Image
“I will not engage in verbal controversy with the sceptic, because long experience has taught me that the sceptic’s ultimate skepticism is… — G. K. Chesterton Doubt Copy Share Image
“But if you cannot at once laugh at a thing or believe in it, you have no business in the Middle Ages.… — G. K. Chesterton Business Copy Share Image
“The Roman Empire necessarily became less Roman as it became more of an Empire; until not very long after Rome gave conquerors… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is… — G. K. Chesterton Life Copy Share Image
