“There is a certain solid use in fools. It is not so much that they rush in where angels fear to tread,… — G.K. Chesterton Foolishness Copy Share Image
“Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the… — G.K. Chesterton Christian church Copy Share Image
“We will have have the dead at our councils. The ancient Greeks voted by stones; these shall vote by tombstones. It is… — G.K. Chesterton Ancient greek Copy Share Image
“Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal; the shock of beauty is when the irresistible force hits the immovable post.” — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“I am told that the Japanese method of wrestling consists not of suddenly pressing, but of suddenly giving way. This is one… — G.K. Chesterton Japanese Copy Share Image
“What are blue-stockings?' asked Tommy. Naturally you don't know,' replied the other. 'If you did, you would sympathize more with Bluebeard. They… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.” — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“sin -- a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or no man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I know the Unknown God," said the little priest, with an unconscious grandeur of certitude that stood up like a granite tower.… — G.K. Chesterton True god Copy Share Image
“It was exactly the sort of person, like Joan of Arc, who did know why women wore skirts, who was most justified… — G.K. Chesterton Modern society 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
“There is only one thing that that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.” — G.K. Chesterton Courage Copy Share Image
“All roads lead to Rome; which is one reason why many people never get there.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“My own general thesis was somewhat to this effect: that Artists have worried the world by being wantonly, needlessly, and gratuitously progressive.… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“I have never been able to understand where people got the idea that democracy was in some way opposed to tradition. It… — G.K. Chesterton Democracy Copy Share Image
“What is the modern mind?" asked Grant. "Oh, it's enlightened, you know, and progressive --and faces the facts of life seriously." At… — G.K. Chesterton Facts of life Copy Share Image
“Adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“For our Titanic purposes of faith and revolution, what we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise,… — G.K. Chesterton Anger Copy Share Image
“We may repeat here that these pages propose mainly to show one thing: that progress ought to be based on principle, while… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Our existence may not be an intelligible justice, or even a recognizable wrong. But our existence is still a story. In the… — G.K. Chesterton Justice Copy Share Image
“I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is merely a blank about the philosophy of toleration; and the average agnostic of recent times has really had… — G.K. Chesterton Ethics Copy Share Image
“The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
