“People who lose all their charity generally lose all their logic.” — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The world will never be safe for democracy—it is a dangerous trade” — G. K. Chesterton Dangerous Copy Share Image
“In every society, the rich are the scum of the earth.” — G. K. Chesterton Community Copy Share Image
“The most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door.” — G. K. Chesterton Door 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Possessed Idea 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
“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
“His father cultivated art and self-realisation; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was… — G. K. Chesterton Art 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 Roman empire 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 Absent minded 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Anarchist 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
“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 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
“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
“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.” — G. K. Chesterton Fence Copy Share Image
“Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.” — G. K. Chesterton Health Copy Share Image
“Even the common things he carried with him—the food and the brandy and the loaded pistol—took on exactly that concrete and material… — G. K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand… — G. K. Chesterton Mathematicians Copy Share Image
“But when first the two black dragons sprang out of the fog upon the small clerk, they had merely the effect of… — G. K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. What we want is a religion that is… — G. K. Chesterton Religion 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 Arrogance Copy Share Image
“There are no chains of houses; there are no crowds of men. The colossal diagram of streets and houses is an illusion,… — G. K. Chesterton Dreams Copy Share Image
“Teach him to worry about whether he wants to be free, and he will not free himself. Again, it may be said… — G. K. Chesterton Every day Copy Share Image
“Any man living in complete luxury and security who chooses to write a play or a novel which causes a flutter and… — G. K. Chesterton Courage Copy Share Image
“But though the essential of the woman's task is universality, this does not, of course, prevent her from having one or two… — G. K. Chesterton Office work Copy Share Image
