“When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.” — G.K. Chesterton Beginning Copy Share Image
“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“No,' said Gould, with an unusual and convincing gravity; 'I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make… — G.K. Chesterton Goodness Copy Share Image
“A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice… — G.K. Chesterton Amateurs Copy Share Image
“A permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or… — G.K. Chesterton Education Copy Share Image
“There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.” — G.K. Chesterton Imitation Copy Share Image
“There are, I believe, some who still deny that England is governed by an oligarchy. It is quite enough for me to… — G.K. Chesterton Thirty years Copy Share Image
“a man is not really convinced of a philosophic theory when he finds that something proves it. He is only really convinced… — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy Copy Share Image
“A queer and almost mad notion seems to have got into the modern head that, if you mix up everybody and everything… — G.K. Chesterton Friendship Copy Share Image
“I earnestly hope that all children will spoil this book by painting the illustrations. I wanted to do this myself but the… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“Briefly, this human belief in a sexual bond rests on a principle of which the modern mind has made a very inadequate… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“He asks all the questions that there are, and some that there aren't” — G.K. Chesterton Truth Seeking Copy Share Image
“We cannot teach citizenship if we are not citizens; we cannot free others if we have forgotten the appetite of freedom. Education… — G.K. Chesterton Freedom Copy Share Image
“You say you are a poet of law; I saw you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not… — G.K. Chesterton Poetry Copy Share Image
“A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is… — G.K. Chesterton Business Copy Share Image
“In short, there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss.” — G.K. Chesterton Life Copy Share Image
“Charity means pardoning what is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“Now I myself, I cheerfully admit, feel that enormity in Kensington Gardens as something quite natural. I feel it so because I… — G.K. Chesterton Aesthetics Copy Share Image
“Very occasionally, very vaguely, English schoolboys are told not to tell lies, which is a totally different thing. I may silently support… — G.K. Chesterton Another man Copy Share Image
“A religion is not the church a man goes to but the cosmos he lives in; and if any sceptic forgets it,… — G.K. Chesterton Catholic Copy Share Image
