“For most people there is a fascinating inconsistency in the position of St. Francis. He expressed in loftier and bolder language than… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“My dear Miss Gregory," said Syme gently, "there are many kinds of sincerity and insincerity. When you say 'thank you' for the… — G.K. Chesterton Sincerity Copy Share Image
“He had an egglike head, froglike jaws, and a grey hairy fringe of aureole round the lower part of his face; the… — G.K. Chesterton Coat 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
“Listen to me," cried Syme with extraordinary emphasis. "Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we… — G.K. Chesterton Brutal Copy Share Image
“The Aristocrat The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stay At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far… — G.K. Chesterton April fool Copy Share Image
“For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity… — G.K. Chesterton Character 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 Flesh Copy Share Image
“A man is perfectly entitled to laugh at a thing because he happens to find it incomprehensible. What he has no right… — G.K. Chesterton Comedy Copy Share Image
“It needs a sort of stretch of imagination to see the obvious objects against the obvious background; and especially the big objects… — G.K. Chesterton Earth and sky Copy Share Image
“Yes, he said in a voice indescribable, you are right. I am afraid of him. Therefore I swear by God that I… — G.K. Chesterton Afraid Copy Share Image
“For my friend said that he opened his intellect as the sun opens the fans of a palm tree, opening for opening's… — G.K. Chesterton Friendship Copy Share Image
“I felt in my bones; first, that this world does not explain itself. It may be a miracle with a supernatural explanation;… — G.K. Chesterton Magic Copy Share Image
“As we have taken the circle as a symbol of reason and madness, we may very well take the cross as a… — G.K. Chesterton Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Turnbull, whose powers of surprise were exhausted, rolled his round grey eyes and said, "Mr. Wilkinson, I think," because he could not… — G.K. Chesterton Grey eyes 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
“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
“Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the… — G.K. Chesterton Dogma Copy Share Image
“just as when we see a pig in a litter larger than the other pigs, we know that by an unalterable law… — G.K. Chesterton Politics Copy Share Image
“I told Mr. Rook you were disinherited and he rushed back to help you. Mr. Rook is a rather remarkable person.” “Oh,… — G.K. Chesterton Honour Copy Share Image
“What the gods are supposed to be, what the priests are commissioned to say, is not a sensational secret like what those… — G.K. Chesterton Evangelism Copy Share Image
“A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting; a child always stands for the good militarism as against the… — G.K. Chesterton Almost perfect Copy Share Image
“In the same way, we read a great deal about the Spirit of Christmas in modern journalism or commercialism; but it is… — G.K. Chesterton Christmas Copy Share Image
“It’s what I call common sense, properly understood,’ replied Father Brown. ’It really is more natural to believe a preternatural story, that… — G.K. Chesterton Common sense Copy Share Image
“When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be… — G.K. Chesterton Modern man Copy Share Image
“That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face—that young man was not really a poet; but surely he… — G.K. Chesterton Biology Copy Share Image
“The vessel was just comfortable for two people; there was room only for necessities, and Flambeau had stocked it with such things… — G.K. Chesterton Necessities Copy Share Image
“The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“Sunday is a fixed star," he said. "You shall see him a falling star," said Syme, and put on his hat. The… — G.K. Chesterton Falling star Copy Share Image
“We must have several word-signs," said Syme seriously -- "words that we are likely to want, fine shades of meaning. My favourite… — G.K. Chesterton Language Copy Share Image
“Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and… — G.K. Chesterton Allies Copy Share Image
“Now here comes in the whole collapse and huge blunder of our age. We have mixed up two different things, two opposite… — G.K. Chesterton Changing the world Copy Share Image
“Plato in some sense anticipated the Catholic realism, as attacked by the heretical nominalism, by insisting on the equally fundamental fact that… — G.K. Chesterton Nominalism Copy Share Image
“Those who complain that Catholicism cannot say anything new, seldom think it necessary to say anything new about Catholicism. As a matter… — G.K. Chesterton Education Copy Share Image
“It is foolish, generally speaking, for a philosopher to set fire to another philosopher in Smithfield Market because they do not agree… — G.K. Chesterton Middle ages Copy Share Image
“The vulgar modern argument used against religion, and lately against common decency, would be absolutely fatal to any idea of liberty. It… — G.K. Chesterton Argument Copy Share Image
“How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“I found that the very people who said that mankind was one church from Plato to Emerson were the very people who… — G.K. Chesterton Morality Changed Copy Share Image
“If we take any other doctrine that has been called old-fashioned we shall find the case the same. It is the same,… — G.K. Chesterton Respect Copy Share Image
