“Inside I am really bursting with boyish merriment; but I acted the paralytic Professor so well, that now I can't leave off.” — G.K. Chesterton Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
“There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is that he certainly will not work.” — G.K. Chesterton Humor Copy Share Image
“I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments… — G.K. Chesterton Arguments Copy Share Image
“Men represent the deliberative and democratic element in life. Woman represents the despotic.” — G.K. Chesterton Life Copy Share Image
“Roughly speaking, there are three kinds of people in the world…the division follows lines of real psychological cleavage. I do not offer… — G.K. Chesterton Humor Copy Share Image
“I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake… — G.K. Chesterton Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“In truth it is inequality that is the illusion. The extreme disproportion between men, that we seem to see in life, is… — G.K. Chesterton Truth Copy Share Image
“This is the first principle of democracy: that the essential things in men are the things they hold in common, not the… — G.K. Chesterton Falling in love Copy Share Image
“All the towering materialism which dominates the modern mind rests ultimately upon one assumption; a false assumption. It is supposed that if… — G.K. Chesterton Every morning Copy Share Image
“The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt depressed even… — G.K. Chesterton Depression Copy Share Image
“Weak things must boast of being new, like so many new German philosophies. But strong things can boast of being old.” — G.K. Chesterton Strength Copy Share Image
“I dare say that when I get out of this bed I shall do some deed of an almost terrible virtue.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But if he has lost the sane vision, he can only get it back by something very like a mad vision; that… — G.K. Chesterton Dreams Copy Share Image
“We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and… — G.K. Chesterton Brotherhood of man Copy Share Image
“For instance, the writer of whom I speak indulges in the millionth mechanical repetition of the charge of mechanical repetition. He says… — G.K. Chesterton Prayer Copy Share Image
“If we take any other doctrine that has been called old-fashioned we shall find the case the same. It is the same,… — G.K. Chesterton Respect Copy Share Image
“A big society is a society for the promotion of narrowness. It is a machinery for the purpose of guarding the solitary… — G.K. Chesterton Community Copy Share Image
“Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“On his last voyage he had seemed on the brink of success and had stood in the prow reciting a grand poem… — G.K. Chesterton Poetry Copy Share Image
“When the Professor is told by the Polynesian that once there was nothing except a great feathered serpent, unless the learned man… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset. It… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“My dear Miss Gregory," said Syme gently, "there are many kinds of sincerity and insincerity. When you say 'thank you' for the… — G.K. Chesterton Truth Copy Share Image
“We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it. We now add that we must… — G.K. Chesterton Another world Copy Share Image
“The Americans are very patriotic, and wish to make their new citizens patriotic Americans. But it is the idea of making a… — G.K. Chesterton America Copy Share Image
