“The transition from the good man to the saint is a sort of revolution; by which one for whom all things illustrate… — G.K. Chesterton Good man Copy Share Image
“The Skeleton Chattering finch and water-fly Are not merrier than I; Here among the flowers I lie Laughing everlastingly. No: I may… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
“It will be said that a rational person accepts the world as mixed of good and evil with decent satisfaction and decent… — G.K. Chesterton Good and evil Copy Share Image
“Every flirtation is a marriage; it is a marriage in this frightful sense; that it is irrevocable.” — G.K. Chesterton Marriage Copy Share Image
“We can no more analyse such peace in the soul than we can conceive in our heads the whole enormous and dizzy… — G.K. Chesterton Peace 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
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to… — G.K. Chesterton Culture Copy Share Image
“His principle can be quite simply stated: he refuses to die while he is still alive.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism.” — G.K. Chesterton Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you know that you are the King of England; but why do you care?” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There are some people, nevertheless — and I am one of them — who think that the most practical and important thing… — G.K. Chesterton Astronomy Copy Share Image
“All that is mere rationalism; the superstition (that is the unreasoning repugnance and terror) is in the person who admits there can… — G.K. Chesterton Eugenics Copy Share Image
“Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well… — G.K. Chesterton Monday Copy Share Image
“A finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“Is that all?" asked Flambeau after a long pause. "Have we got to the dull truth at last?" "Oh, no," said Father… — G.K. Chesterton Theory Copy Share Image
“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most… — G.K. Chesterton Conservatism Copy Share Image
“Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world… — G.K. Chesterton Essay 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
“Whether the human mind can advance or not, is a question too little discussed, for nothing can be more dangerous than to… — G.K. Chesterton Human brain 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
“Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of… — G.K. Chesterton Good thing Copy Share Image
“I wish the world had been made in six days, and knocked to pieces again in six more. And I wish I… — G.K. Chesterton Good enough Copy Share Image
“The poor have been rebels, but they have never become anarchists: they have got more interest than anyone in there being some… — G.K. Chesterton Politics Copy Share Image
“But as a matter of fact, another part of my trade, too, made me sure you weren't a priest." "What?" asked the… — G.K. Chesterton Matter of fact Copy Share Image
