“No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he's realised exactly how much right… — G.K. Chesterton Criminals Copy Share Image
“We are rarely in danger of examining to excess, especially when the subject is the shape of our own lives.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I can imagine no more successful and productive form of manufacture than that of making mountains out of molehills.” — G.K. Chesterton Manufacture Copy Share Image
“for a large lemon moon was only just setting in the forest of high grass above their heads,” — G.K. Chesterton Grass Copy Share Image
“The chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God,… — G.K. Chesterton Chicken Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“But there are some people, nevertheless—and I am one of them—who think that the most practical and important thing about a man… — G.K. Chesterton People Copy Share Image
“She was not in the least afraid of loneliness, because she was not afraid of devils. I think they were afraid of… — G.K. Chesterton Fear Copy Share Image
“I shall approach. Before taking off his hat, I shall take off my own. I shall say, "The Marquis de Saint Eustache,… — G.K. Chesterton Say Marquis Copy Share Image
“When the great Greek cry breaks into the Latin of the Mass, as old as Christianity itself, it may surprise some to… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“Evolution is a good example of that modern intelligence which, if it destroys anything, destroys itself. Evolution is either an innocent scientific… — G.K. Chesterton Earthly things Copy Share Image
“all conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do… — G.K. Chesterton Conservatism Copy Share Image
“Man can hardly be defined, after the fashion of Carlyle, as an animal who makes tools; ants and beavers and many other… — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy and religion Copy Share Image
