“The present importance of the Book of Job cannot be expressed adequately even by saying that it is the most interesting of… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“And the beasts of the earth and the birds looked down, In a wild solemnity, On a stranger sight than a sylph… — G.K. Chesterton Christmas Copy Share Image
“It is you who are unpoetical," replied the poet Syme. "If what you say of clerks is true, they can only be… — G.K. Chesterton Poetry 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
“But always, it has been truly said, the savage is talkative about his mythology and taciturn about his religion.” — G.K. Chesterton Religion Copy Share Image
“A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable,… — G.K. Chesterton Psychology Copy Share Image
“The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We say that the dangerous criminal is the educated criminal. We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless… — G.K. Chesterton Crime Copy Share Image
“most cannibalism is not a primitive or even a bestial habit. It is artificial and even artistic; a sort of art for… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“The fierce poet of the Middle Ages wrote, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here," over the gates of the lower world.… — G.K. Chesterton Hope Copy Share Image
“His eyes were alive with intellectual torture, as if pure thought was pain.” — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
“Every trace of the passionate plumage of the cloudy sunset had been swept away, and a naked moon stood in a naked… — G.K. Chesterton Daylight Copy Share Image
“The people who wrote the mediaeval ballads knew more about fairies than you do. It isn't only nice things that happen in… — G.K. Chesterton Nice things Copy Share Image
“The glory of heaven deepened and darkened around the sublime vulgarity of man;” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“So far as he could prevent it, Dickens never permitted a day of his life to be ordinary. There was always some… — G.K. Chesterton Life Copy Share Image
“When the old Liberals removed the gags from all the heresies, their idea was that religious and philosophical discoveries might thus be… — G.K. Chesterton First time Copy Share Image
“I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of… — G.K. Chesterton Success Copy Share Image
“No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid...who would condescend to strike down the mere things that… — G.K. Chesterton Fear Copy Share Image
“I could forgive you even your cruelty if it were not for your calm.” — G.K. Chesterton Cold hearted Copy Share Image
“There are two ways of renouncing the devil,” he said; “and the difference is perhaps the deepest chasm in modern religion. One… — G.K. Chesterton Religion 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
“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
“I have my doubts about all this real value in mountaineering, in getting to the top of everything and overlooking everything. Satan… — G.K. Chesterton Real value 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 Freedom Copy Share Image
