“Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only… — G.K. Chesterton Common sense Copy Share Image
“For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It… — G.K. Chesterton Every morning Copy Share Image
“We must not hate humanity, or despise humanity, or refuse to help humanity; but we must not trust humanity; in the sense… — G.K. Chesterton Bad thing Copy Share Image
“A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. The First Effect I should say the first effect of the triumph of the… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it… — G.K. Chesterton Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately he was one of those who always tend to take their own fancies seriously; and in whose otherwise legitimate extravagance there… — G.K. Chesterton Extravagance Copy Share Image
“To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract… — G.K. Chesterton Citizen Copy Share Image
“The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen. …there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people on… — G.K. Chesterton Life Copy Share Image
“Therefore I see no wrong in riding with the Nightmare to-night; she whinnies to me from the rocking tree-tops and the roaring… — G.K. Chesterton Fancies Copy Share Image
“The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is… — G.K. Chesterton Failure Copy Share Image
“I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its meat from… — G.K. Chesterton Happiness Copy Share Image
“Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is… — G.K. Chesterton Time Copy Share Image
“It does not deal much with abstractions; it is the truest of all (...), because it does not speak much about love.… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed, for an instant, that… — G.K. Chesterton Human soul Copy Share Image
“An interesting essay might be written on the possession of an atheistic literary style. There is such a thing. The mark of… — G.K. Chesterton Essay Copy Share Image
“Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of about ideas. The old civilisation talked… — G.K. Chesterton Blame Copy Share Image
“We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are… — G.K. Chesterton Doubt Copy Share Image
“Another is the paradox of charity or chivalry that the weaker a thing is the more it should be respected, that the… — G.K. Chesterton Generosity Copy Share Image
“White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as… — G.K. Chesterton Color Copy Share Image
“What are blue-stockings?' asked Tommy. Naturally you don't know,' replied the other. 'If you did, you would sympathize more with Bluebeard. They… — G.K. Chesterton Bluebeard Copy Share Image
“The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. He cares as… — G.K. Chesterton Free thinker Copy Share Image
“I have never understood them," he said. "Those two creatures I see everywhere, stumping along the ground, first one and then the… — G.K. Chesterton Animals Copy Share Image
“He is a man, I think," he said, "who cares for nothing but a joke. He is a dangerous man." Lambert laughed… — G.K. Chesterton Danger Copy Share Image
“All that is mere rationalism; the superstition (that is the unreasoning repugnance and terror) is in the person who admits there can… — G.K. Chesterton Eugenics Copy Share Image
“The sages have a hundred maps to give That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree They rattle reason out through many… — G.K. Chesterton Astronomy Copy Share Image
“The servants of God who had been a besieged garrison became a marching army; the ways of the world were filled as… — G.K. Chesterton Marching Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a state of the soul; a state in which our natures are full of the wine of an ancient youth,… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“It does not, in the conventional phrase, accept the conclusions of science, for the simple reason that science has not concluded. To… — G.K. Chesterton Conclude Copy Share Image
“Men have not got tired of Christianity; they have never found enough Christianity to get tired of. Men have never wearied of… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“Man does not necessarily begin with despotism because he is barbarous, but very often finds his way to despotism because he is… — G.K. Chesterton Democracy Copy Share Image
“The whole imaginative effort of Walt Whitman was really an effort to absorb and animate these multitudinous modern repetitions; and Walt Whitman… — G.K. Chesterton Poetry Copy Share Image
“I am sure that it was only because Michael Angelo was engaged in the ancient and honourable occupation of lying in bed… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“A man who thinks much about success must be the drowsiest sentimentalist; for he must be always looking back. If he only… — G.K. Chesterton Success Copy Share Image
“If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of… — G.K. Chesterton Believe in your self Copy Share Image
“Just as one generation could prevent the very existence of the next generation, by all entering a monastery or jumping into the… — G.K. Chesterton Human thought Copy Share Image
“I did, indeed, retain a cloudy reverence for a cosmic deity and a great historical interest in the Founder of Christianity. But… — G.K. Chesterton Reverence Copy Share Image
“When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends : "What a glorious… — G.K. Chesterton Broadway Copy Share Image
“Father Brown got to his feet, putting his hands behind him. 'Odd, isn't it,' he said, 'that a thief and a vagabond… — G.K. Chesterton Lowly Copy Share Image
“Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well… — G.K. Chesterton Monday Copy Share Image
“But though some punishments are more inhuman than others there is no such thing as humane punishment. As long as nineteen men… — G.K. Chesterton Punishments Copy Share Image
