“For in the average human house there is one hole by which money comes in and a hundred by which it goes… — G.K. Chesterton Money Copy Share Image
“The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times.” — G.K. Chesterton Church Copy Share Image
“The most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing--such as making love.” — G.K. Chesterton Comedy Copy Share Image
“Men represent the deliberative and democratic element in life. Woman represents the despotic.” — G.K. Chesterton Feminism Copy Share Image
“I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of… — G.K. Chesterton Independent thinking Copy Share Image
“The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“The poetic does not misrepresent the speech one half so much as the speech misrepresents the soul.” — G.K. Chesterton Communication Copy Share Image
“Adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“It has been proved a hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make them angry, even unto… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
“But anyhow it is true that this, which is our first poem, might very well be our last poem too. It might… — G.K. Chesterton Poem Copy Share Image
“As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. Indigenous humans have always been sane… — G.K. Chesterton Health Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
“And yet the thing hangs in the heavens unhurt. Its opponents only succeed in destroying all that they themselves justly hold dear.… — G.K. Chesterton Political courage Copy Share Image
“It was the outstanding fact about St. Thomas [Aquinas] that he loved books and lived on books ... When asked for what… — G.K. Chesterton Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Whether the human mind can advance or not, is a question too little discussed, for nothing can be more dangerous than to… — G.K. Chesterton Human mind Copy Share Image
“This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but… — G.K. Chesterton Commandments Copy Share Image
“For most people there is a fascinating inconsistency in the position of St. Francis. He expressed in loftier and bolder language than… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“I see everything," he cried, "everything that there is. Why does each thing on the earth war against each other thing? Why… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchist 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
“A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“If I beat my grandmother to death to-morrow in the middle of Battersea Park, you may be perfectly certain that people will… — G.K. Chesterton Aesthetics Copy Share Image
“It is at least as possible for a Philadelphian to feel the presence of Penn and Franklin as for an Englishman to… — G.K. Chesterton New york city Copy Share Image
“But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of… — G.K. Chesterton Artificial Copy Share Image
“I know the Unknown God," said the little priest, with an unconscious grandeur of certitude that stood up like a granite tower.… — G.K. Chesterton Satan Copy Share Image
“Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not quite coward enough to admire it.” — G.K. Chesterton Coward Copy Share Image
“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“My best friends are all either bottomless skeptics or quite uncontrollable believers . . . .” — G.K. Chesterton Best friend Copy Share Image
“Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed: a passage which some have considered as a prophecy of modern… — G.K. Chesterton Prophecy Copy Share Image
“Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief,… — G.K. Chesterton Modern literature Copy Share Image
“Weak if we were and foolish, not thus we failed, not thus; When that black Baal blocked the heavens he had no… — G.K. Chesterton Weak Copy Share Image
“He had the notion that because I am a clergyman I should believe anything. Many people have little notions of that kind.… — G.K. Chesterton Clergyman Copy Share Image
“And the second as an old man might say it about the weather; not without sincerity but certainly without fervour.” — G.K. Chesterton Old man Copy Share Image
“The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God.” — G.K. Chesterton Bible Copy Share Image
“Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you?” — G.K. Chesterton Happiness Copy Share Image
“Moderation is not a compromise; moderation is a passion; the passion of great judges.” — G.K. Chesterton Moderation Copy Share Image
“A saint is long past any desire for distinction; he is the only sort of superior man who has never been a… — G.K. Chesterton Saint Copy Share Image
“Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.” — G.K. Chesterton Dead people Copy Share Image
“I don't want the universe broken up just yet," drawled the Marquis. "I want to do a lot of beastly things before… — G.K. Chesterton Want Universe Copy Share Image
“We ought not give ourselves the benefit of the doubt if we plan on doubting everything else.” — G.K. Chesterton Benefit of the doubt Copy Share Image
“What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
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