“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium… — G.K. Chesterton 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… — G.K. Chesterton Business 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… — G.K. Chesterton Frame of mind 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… — G.K. Chesterton Ask yourself 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… — G.K. Chesterton Books 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… — G.K. Chesterton Internationalism 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… — G.K. Chesterton Description 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 Humility 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… — 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… — 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… — G.K. Chesterton Ask yourself Copy Share Image
“But in order that life should be a story or romance to us, it is necessary that a great part of it,… — G.K. Chesterton Life Copy Share Image
“Buddhism seeks after God with the largest conception it can find, the all-producing and all-absorbing One; Christianity seeks after God with the… — G.K. Chesterton Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.” — G.K. Chesterton Grief Copy Share Image
“It is often said by the critics of Christian origins that certain ritual feasts, processions or dances are really of pagan origin.… — G.K. Chesterton Christian Copy Share Image
“Graham of Claverhouse, you know, who persecuted the Covenanters and had a black horse that could ride straight up a precipice. Don’t… — G.K. Chesterton Quiet man Copy Share Image
“curiously enough, it is the man who likes things as they are who really makes them better. The” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Both aristocracy and democracy are human ideals: the one saying that all men are valuable, the other that some men are more… — G.K. Chesterton Nature Copy Share Image
“That Jones shall worship the god within him turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones. Let Jones worship the… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“The pagan, or rational, virtues are such things as justice and temperance, and Christianity has adopted them. The three mystical virtues which… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“Do you see this lantern? cried Syme in a terrible voice.'Do you see the cross carved on it, and the flame inside?… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“The huge modern heresy is to alter the human soul to fit modern social conditions, instead of altering modern social conditions to… — G.K. Chesterton Heresy Copy Share Image
“We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not understand. So long as… — G.K. Chesterton Multiculturalism Copy Share Image
