G.K. Chesterton

“I am not a man at all. I am a cause.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Horne Fisher stooped and touched”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Self is the gorgon.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Modesty is always beautiful”

— G.K. Chesterton

“The clubhouse on the golf links was”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Men are men, but Man is a woman.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“We become taller when we bow.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Always be comic in a tragedy”

— G.K. Chesterton

“The dragon without St. George would not even be grotesque.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Blessed are they who did not see, but being blind, believed.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“We have eternity to stretch our legs in.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“I prefer to call it reform. For reform implies form.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbors.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“I know he is really happy, and yet I can never catch him at it.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“When duty and religion are really destroyed, it will be by the rich.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come! wait and see me betray myself. I shall do it so…

— G.K. Chesterton

“We have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule; rather we must crown the much more exceptional man…

— G.K. Chesterton

Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither…

— G.K. Chesterton

“There is a certain solid use in fools. It is not so much that they rush in where angels fear to tread,…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The big commercial concerns of to-day are quite exceptionally incompetent. They will be even more incompetent when they are omnipotent.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“I am sure that if triangles ever were loved, they were loved for being triangular.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“We’re all really dependent in nearly everything, and we all make a fuss about being independent in something.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“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

“To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract…

— G.K. Chesterton

“White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Another is the paradox of charity or chivalry that the weaker a thing is the more it should be respected, that the…

— G.K. Chesterton

“We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. He cares as…

— G.K. Chesterton

“What are blue-stockings?' asked Tommy. Naturally you don't know,' replied the other. 'If you did, you would sympathize more with Bluebeard. They…

— G.K. Chesterton

“I have never understood them," he said. "Those two creatures I see everywhere, stumping along the ground, first one and then the…

— G.K. Chesterton

“No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerness in eating, drinking, or…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Now the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love it. But the next best is to…

— G.K. Chesterton

“But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a…

— G.K. Chesterton

“I spare you,” said the Duke in a voice of inhuman pity. “I refuse. If I gave you the faintest hint of…

— G.K. Chesterton

“There has appeared in our time a particular class of books and articles which I sincerely and solemnly think may be called…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Have they [the agnostics] produced in their universality anything grander or more beautiful than the things uttered by the fierce Ghibbeline Catholic,…

— G.K. Chesterton

“In a word, God paints in many colors; but he never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when…

— G.K. Chesterton

“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