“An artist is identical with an anarchist,' he cried. 'You might transpose the words anywhere. An anarchist is an artist. The man… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“Sirs, I am but a nameless man, A rhymester without a home, Yet since I come of the Wessex clay And carry… — G.K. Chesterton Rain and snow Copy Share Image
“but for me all good things come to a point, swords for instance.” — G.K. Chesterton Good thing Copy Share Image
“Charity means pardoning what is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“Of all horrible religions the most horrible is the worship of hte god within.” — G.K. Chesterton Religion Copy Share Image
“Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but… — G.K. Chesterton Bible Copy Share Image
“The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side.” — G.K. Chesterton Darkness Copy Share Image
“The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that… — G.K. Chesterton History Copy Share Image
“And he set to rhyme his ale-measures, And he sang aloud his laws, Because of the joy of giants, The joy without… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance." "Eh?" said Syme, staring. "The soldier must be… — G.K. Chesterton Anger Copy Share Image
“I am sure that if triangles ever were loved, they were loved for being triangular.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“This is not a university town full of philosophies; it is a Zion of the hundred sieges raging with religions; not a… — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy Copy Share Image
“A man who is perpetually thinking of whether this race or that race is strong, of whether this cause or that cause… — G.K. Chesterton Racism Copy Share Image
“The substance of all such paganism may be summarised thus. It is an attempt to reach the divine reality through the imagination… — G.K. Chesterton Religion Copy Share Image
“Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence made God incomplete. Christianity alone has felt that God, to… — G.K. Chesterton Breaking point Copy Share Image
“The truth is, I think, that they are caught in a sort of argument in a circle. Their vague philosophy says to… — G.K. Chesterton Man and woman Copy Share Image
“People always brag about their vices; it is when they begin to brag about their virtues that they become insufferable.” — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“Rossetti makes the remark somewhere, bitterly but with great truth, that the worst moment for the atheist is when he is really… — G.K. Chesterton Gratitude Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you what, you fellows," said the sprawling gentleman, confidentially, while Evan's agonized ears heard behind him the first paces of… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“All the great groups that stood about the Cross represent in one way or another the great historical truth of the time;… — G.K. Chesterton Good friday Copy Share Image
“The Body was no longer what it was when Plato and Porphyry and the old mystics had left it for dead. It… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The work of the philosophical policeman," replied the man in blue, "is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the… — G.K. Chesterton Classic Copy Share Image
“No man ought to write at all, or even to speak at all, unless he thinks that he is in truth and… — G.K. Chesterton Truth 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
