“however, that the controversies left Summers Minor comparatively” — G.K. Chesterton Summer Copy Share Image
“Take away the supernatural, and what remains is the unnatural.” — G.K. Chesterton Miracles Copy Share Image
Private lives are more important than public reputations. — G.K. Chesterton Important Copy Share Image
“Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.” — G.K. Chesterton Irreligion Copy Share Image
“All roads lead to Rome; which is one reason why many people never get there.” — G.K. Chesterton Road Copy Share Image
“The glory of heaven deepened and darkened around the sublime vulgarity of man;” — G.K. Chesterton Vulgarity Man Copy Share Image
“He who weds the spirit of the times quickly becomes a widower.” — G.K. Chesterton Marriage Copy Share Image
“What a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad.” — G.K. Chesterton Strange Copy Share Image
“Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.” — G.K. Chesterton Grief Copy Share Image
“The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“All men are tragic...All men are comic...Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“There is only one good thing science ever discovered—a good thing, good tidings of great joy— that the world is round.” — G.K. Chesterton Discovered Copy Share Image
“why, nobody’s ever survived it! Look at all the people married since Adam and Eve—and all as dead as mutton.” — G.K. Chesterton Adam and eve Copy Share Image
“As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.” — G.K. Chesterton Comparative Copy Share Image
“The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.” — G.K. Chesterton Atheist Copy Share Image
“A religion is not the church a man goes to but the cosmos he lives in; and if any sceptic forgets it,… — G.K. Chesterton Catholic Copy Share Image
“You don't expect me," he said, "to revolutionize society on this lawn?" Syme looked straight into his eyes and smiled sweetly. "No,… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchy Copy Share Image
“Brown paper represents the primal twilight of the first toil of creation, and with a bright-coloured chalk or two you can pick… — G.K. Chesterton Creation Copy Share Image
“Admiral Pendragon sat down again as abruptly as he had risen; but he sat quite still, and when he spoke again it… — G.K. Chesterton Atheist Copy Share Image
“The silly sentimentalists of the French Revolution talked of the Rights of Man! We hate Rights as we hate Wrongs. We have… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchism Copy Share Image
“It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such… — G.K. Chesterton Clouds Copy Share Image
“If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real;… — G.K. Chesterton Cynicism Copy Share Image
“One of the Franciscans says later, "A monk should own nothing but his harp"; meaning, I suppose, that he should value nothing… — G.K. Chesterton Monk Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is… — G.K. Chesterton Ask yourself Copy Share Image
“While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in… — G.K. Chesterton Evolution Copy Share Image
“It stated that Rome tolerates, in her relation with the Russian Uniats, "strange heresies and even bearded and wedded clergy." In that… — G.K. Chesterton Anti-catholicism Copy Share Image
“When the Professor is told by the Polynesian that once there was nothing except a great feathered serpent, unless the learned man… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“But there is another possible attitude towards the records of the past, and I have never been able to understand why it… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“Does the reader realise the despair that falls upon the hapless Catholic journalist at such moments; or how wild a prayer he… — G.K. Chesterton Anti-catholicism Copy Share Image
“Now I have no notion at all of propounding a new ideal. There is no new ideal imaginable by the madness of… — G.K. Chesterton Sophists Copy Share Image
“The old tyrants invoked the past; the new tyrants will invoke the future evolution has produced the snail and the owl; evolution… — G.K. Chesterton Evolution Copy Share Image
“Angus...had hitherto maintained hilarious ease from motives of mental hygiene...” — G.K. Chesterton Angus Copy Share Image
“The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.” — G.K. Chesterton Humor Copy Share Image
“A blind man may be picturesque; but it requires two eyes to see the picture.” — G.K. Chesterton Blind Copy Share Image
“There are no rationalists. We all believe fairy-tales, and live in them.” — G.K. Chesterton Fairy Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you know that you are the King of England; but why do you care?” — G.K. Chesterton England Copy Share Image
“There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.” — G.K. Chesterton Denial Copy Share Image
