“Who are you?' he asked suddenly. I'm not sure,' replied the other. 'I rather think I am your long-lost brother.' But I… — G.K. Chesterton Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“If a school of critics were found prepared to pay divine honours to a certain person while doubting whether he was divine,… — G.K. Chesterton Religion Copy Share Image
“We have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule; rather we must crown the much more exceptional man… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a… — G.K. Chesterton Determination Copy Share Image
“A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread… — G.K. Chesterton Dirty water 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 Copy Share Image
“I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind… — G.K. Chesterton Poetry Copy Share Image
“The duty of the artist lies in keeping alive a sense of wonder in the world.” — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“There are some refusals which, though they may be done what is called conscientiously, yet carry so much of their whole horror… — G.K. Chesterton Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.” — G.K. Chesterton Growth 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
“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
“He had an egglike head, froglike jaws, and a grey hairy fringe of aureole round the lower part of his face; the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Until we realize that things might not be, we cannot realize that things are. Until we see the background of darkness, we… — G.K. Chesterton Creation Copy Share Image
“I felt in my bones; first, that this world does not explain itself. It may be a miracle with a supernatural explanation;… — G.K. Chesterton True or false Copy Share Image
“It is vain for Mr. McCabe to say that a ballet is a part of him. He should be part of a… — G.K. Chesterton Dance Copy Share Image
“I found that the very people who said that mankind was one church from Plato to Emerson were the very people who… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.” — G.K. Chesterton Anarchy Copy Share Image
“Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“There is one thing that is infinitely more absurd and unpractical than burning a man for his philosophy. This is the habit… — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy Copy Share Image
“Londoners had no particular objection to the King making a fool of himself, but they became indignant when it became evident that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Of a sane man there is only one safe definition. He is the man who can have tragedy in his heart and… — G.K. Chesterton Humor Copy Share Image
“Very deep things in our nature, some dim sense of the dependence of great things upon small, some dark suggestion that the… — G.K. Chesterton Nature Copy Share Image
