“Thus, all sane moralists admit that one may sometimes tell a lie; but no sane moralist would approve of telling a little… — G.K. Chesterton Telling lies Copy Share Image
“Fairyland is nothing but the sunny country of common sense. It is not earth that judges heaven, but heaven that judges earth;… — G.K. Chesterton Nature Copy Share Image
“Efficiency," of course, is futile .... It has no philosophy for incidents before they happen; therefore it has no power of choice.… — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy Copy Share Image
“If the characters are not wicked, the book is." We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister… — G.K. Chesterton Book Copy Share Image
“If the great paradox of Christianity means anything it means this- that we must take the crown in our hands, and go… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“What we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise, but some way in which we can heartily… — G.K. Chesterton Anger Copy Share Image
“I am not good at deception,' said Tuesday gloomily, flushing. Right, my boy, right,' said the President with a ponderous heartiness, 'You… — G.K. Chesterton Deception 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
“The truth is that exploration and enlargement make the world smaller. The telegraph and the steamboat make the world smaller. The telescope… — G.K. Chesterton Small things Copy Share Image
“An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age… — G.K. Chesterton Habits Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical.… — G.K. Chesterton Crusades Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards… — G.K. Chesterton Blank Copy Share Image
“the case is even stronger, and the parallel with madness is yet more strange. For it was our case against the exhaustive… — G.K. Chesterton Free thought Copy Share Image
“Look at the eyebrows. They mean that infernal pride which made Satan so proud that he sneered even at heaven when he… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerness in eating and drinking.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is very currently suggested that the modern man is the heir of all the ages, that he has got the good… — G.K. Chesterton Modern man Copy Share Image
“Man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.” — G.K. Chesterton Character 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 Golden rule Copy Share Image
“The dragon without St. George would not even be grotesque.” — G.K. Chesterton Dragon Copy Share Image
“It is true that a man (a silly man) might make change itself his object or ideal. But as an ideal, change… — G.K. Chesterton Change Copy Share Image
“The vision which has been so faintly suggested in these pages has never been confined to monks or even to friars. It… — G.K. Chesterton Dreams Copy Share Image
“In short, we do not get good laws to restrain bad people. We get good people to restrain bad laws.” — G.K. Chesterton Bad people Copy Share Image
“Then I realized that for eighteen hundred years the Church Militant had not been a pageant, but a riot—and a suppressed riot.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only… — G.K. Chesterton People Care Copy Share Image
