“Stories of magic alone can express my sense that life is not only a pleasure but a kind of eccentric privilege.” — G.K. Chesterton Eccentric Copy Share Image
“As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.” — G.K. Chesterton Paradox 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 Contradiction Copy Share Image
“For the two things that a healthy person hates most between heaven and hell are a woman who is not dignified and… — G.K. Chesterton Hates Copy Share Image
“All men are tragic...All men are comic...Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified… — G.K. Chesterton Books 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
“What a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad.” — G.K. Chesterton Strange Copy Share Image
“One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious… — G.K. Chesterton Afraid Copy Share Image
“What is the modern mind?" asked Grant. "Oh, it's enlightened, you know, and progressive --and faces the facts of life seriously." At… — G.K. Chesterton Comedy Copy Share Image
“If you let loose a law, it will do as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Such… — G.K. Chesterton Law Copy Share Image
“Fairyland is nothing but the sunny country of common sense. It is not earth that judges heaven, but heaven that judges earth;… — G.K. Chesterton Fairyland Copy Share Image
“There was something that He hid from all men, when he went up a mountain to pray. There was something that he… — G.K. Chesterton Christ Copy Share Image
“The devotee is entirely free to criticise; the fanatic can safely be a sceptic. Love is not blind; that is the last… — G.K. Chesterton Devotee Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of revolutionists, as of most things – a good kind and a bad. The bad revolutionists destroy conventions… — G.K. Chesterton Revolution Copy Share Image
“La sua logica è straordinariamente lucida e fredda e invariabilmente lo porta fuori strada. Ma all'improvviso interviene la poesia in lui a… — G.K. Chesterton Amor Copy Share Image
“There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact… — G.K. Chesterton Creeds Copy Share Image
“Towards the end of the nineteenth century there appeared its two incredible figures; they were the pure Conservative and the pure Progressive;… — G.K. Chesterton Conservative Copy Share Image
“Adam Wayne, the conqueror, with his face flung back and his mane like a lion's, stood with his great sword point upwards,… — G.K. Chesterton Adam Copy Share Image
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The… — G.K. Chesterton Business Copy Share Image
“It is not true that we have never been broken. We have been broken upon the wheel. It is not true that… — G.K. Chesterton Accuse Copy Share Image
“A man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of Adam. He supposes that… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“I have never been able to understand where people got the idea that democracy was in some way opposed to tradition. It… — G.K. Chesterton Democracy Copy Share Image
“An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age… — G.K. Chesterton Habits Copy Share Image
“Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out.” — G.K. Chesterton Chesterton Copy Share Image
“All right,” said Father Brown. “I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland. I only said it was always dangerous.” — G.K. Chesterton Parenting Copy Share Image
“curiously enough, it is the man who likes things as they are who really makes them better. The” — G.K. Chesterton Things Really Copy Share Image
“It is one thing to believe in witches, and quite another to believe in witch-smellers.” — G.K. Chesterton Politics Copy Share Image
“Father Brown: I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland, I only said it was always dangerous.” — G.K. Chesterton Fairyland Copy Share Image
“And he set to rhyme his ale-measures, And he sang aloud his laws, Because of the joy of giants, The joy without… — G.K. Chesterton Laws Joy Copy Share Image
“There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.” — G.K. Chesterton Prison Copy Share Image
“I do not think that under modern Western materialism we should have anarchy. I doubt whether we should have enough individual valour… — G.K. Chesterton Freedom Copy Share Image
“If no apple has ever been shot off a boy's head from the beginning of the world, it may be done tomorrow… — G.K. Chesterton Ananke Copy Share Image
“Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. The mere minimum of the Church would… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.” — G.K. Chesterton Conflict Copy Share Image
“An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.” — G.K. Chesterton Catholic Copy Share Image
“The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as because it cannot recover the normal.” — G.K. Chesterton Insane Copy Share Image
“Man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.” — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.” — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.” — G.K. Chesterton Atheist Copy Share Image
