“The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion they begin to care more for ambition than for education.… — G.K. Chesterton Education Copy Share Image
“Flippancy is a flower whose roots are often underground in the subconsciousness.” — G.K. Chesterton Flower Copy Share Image
“I have called this book "What Is Wrong with the World?" and the upshot of the title can be easily and clearly… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“We are fond of talking about 'liberty'; but the way we end up actually talking of it is an attempt to avoid… — G.K. Chesterton Character 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
“To the delight of the poetic little gutter boys in the little grey streets.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Of real sensational journalism, as it exists in France, in Ireland, and in America, we have no trace in this country. When… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“All right,” said Father Brown. “I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland. I only said it was always dangerous.” — G.K. Chesterton Parenting Copy Share Image
“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“And well may God with the serving-folk Cast in His dreadful lot; Is not He too a servant, And is not He… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“He had thought at first that they were all of common stature and costume, with the evident exception of the hairy Gogol.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to… — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy Copy Share Image
“But anyhow it is true that this, which is our first poem, might very well be our last poem too. It might… — G.K. Chesterton Poetry Copy Share Image
“The very rationalists who jeer at the trial by combat, in the old feudal ordeal, do in fact accept a trial by… — G.K. Chesterton History 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
“Angus...had hitherto maintained hilarious ease from motives of mental hygiene...” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I know he is really happy, and yet I can never catch him at it.” — G.K. Chesterton Happiness Copy Share Image
“If you have, let us say, a theory about man, and if you can only prove it by talking about Plato and… — G.K. Chesterton George w Copy Share Image
“The only crime of the Government is that it governs. The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is that it is supreme.… — G.K. Chesterton Activism 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 Good thing Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a state of the soul; a state in which our natures are full of the wine of an ancient youth,… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“wish to deal with my most distinguished contemporaries, not personally or in a merely literary manner, but in relation to the real… — G.K. Chesterton Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to… — G.K. Chesterton Belief Copy Share Image
