“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 Christmas 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
“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
“We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“What makes it difficult for the average man to be a universalist is that the average man has to be a specialist;… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“To these things do writers sink; and then the critics tell them that they “talk for effect”; and then the writers answer:… — G.K. Chesterton Effect Copy Share Image
“Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost… — G.K. Chesterton Modern man Copy Share Image
“I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the… — G.K. Chesterton Conceptions Copy Share Image
“If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness in skinning a cat, then the religious… — G.K. Chesterton Existence of god Copy Share Image
“I shall approach. Before taking off his hat, I shall take off my own. I shall say, "The Marquis de Saint Eustache,… — G.K. Chesterton Say Marquis Copy Share Image
“A permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or… — G.K. Chesterton Education Copy Share Image
“Father Brown smiled faintly. ‘I suppose in one sense,’ he said, ‘it was a matter of special knowledge; almost a professional matter,… — G.K. Chesterton Old school Copy Share Image
“In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us… — 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 Cape Copy Share Image
“You will not be able rationally to read the Gospel and regard the Crucifixion as an afterthought or an anti-climax or an… — G.K. Chesterton Crucifixion Copy Share Image
“Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances… — G.K. Chesterton Generosity Copy Share Image
“I have known some people of very modern views driven by their distress to the use of theological terms to which they… — G.K. Chesterton Inconvenience Copy Share Image
“I find it said, if only of Atys or Adonis, "There was a conception that the god sacrificed himself to himself." The… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“When the great Greek cry breaks into the Latin of the Mass, as old as Christianity itself, it may surprise some to… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“And an even stronger example of Mr. Wells's indifference to the human psychology can be found in his cosmopolitanism, the abolition in… — G.K. Chesterton Conflict Copy Share Image
“The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they… — G.K. Chesterton Astronomy Copy Share Image
“In a word, God paints in many colors; but he never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when… — G.K. Chesterton Color Copy Share Image
“Have they [the agnostics] produced in their universality anything grander or more beautiful than the things uttered by the fierce Ghibbeline Catholic,… — G.K. Chesterton Agnostics Copy Share Image
“I spare you,” said the Duke in a voice of inhuman pity. “I refuse. If I gave you the faintest hint of… — G.K. Chesterton Devil Copy Share Image
“There has appeared in our time a particular class of books and articles which I sincerely and solemnly think may be called… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a… — G.K. Chesterton Catholic Copy Share Image
“Now the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love it. But the next best is to… — G.K. Chesterton Apologetics Copy Share Image
“No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerness in eating, drinking, or… — G.K. Chesterton Comradeship Copy Share Image
“We read a good novel not in order to know more people, but in order to know fewer. Instead of the humming… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“Briefly, then, we dismiss the two opposite dangers of bigotry and fanaticism, bigotry which is a too great vagueness and fanaticism which… — G.K. Chesterton Religion Copy Share Image
“The Last Hero The wind blew out from Bergen from the dawning to the day, There was a wreck of trees and… — G.K. Chesterton Hero Copy Share Image
“It is always simple to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.… — G.K. Chesterton Chariot Copy Share Image
“America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchism Copy Share Image
“One could not imagine a process more open to the elephantine logic of the Bible-smasher than this: that the sun should be created… — G.K. Chesterton Creation Copy Share Image
“In most cases the name is unpoetical, although the fact is poetical. In the case of Smith, the name is so poetical… — G.K. Chesterton Nature Copy Share Image
“We will have no generalizations. Mr. Bernard Shaw has put the view in a perfect epigram: "The golden rule is that there… — G.K. Chesterton Bernard shaw Copy Share Image
“If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just because he can… — G.K. Chesterton Goodness Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I… — G.K. Chesterton Frame of mind Copy Share Image
“Then may I ask you to swear by whatever gods or saints your religion involves that you will not reveal what I… — G.K. Chesterton Poetry Copy Share Image
“If you want to succeed at whist, either be a good whist-player, or play with marked cards. You may want a book… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
![“Have they [the agnostics] produced in their universality anything grander or more beautiful than the things uttered by the fierce Ghibbeline Catholic, by the rigid Puritan schoolmaster? We know that they have produced only a few roundels. Milton does not merely beat them at his piety, he beats…” quote by G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b63/g-k-chesterton-224_quote_have-they-the-agnostics-produced-in-thei_633557.jpg)
