“In other words, we may, by fixing our attention almost fiercely on the facts actually before us, force them to turn into… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“Nothing is important except the fate of the soul; and literature is only redeemed from an utter triviality ... by the fact… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“An interesting essay might be written on the possession of an atheistic literary style. There is such a thing. The mark of… — G.K. Chesterton Moral responsibility 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
“All the dizzy and colossal things conceded depend upon one small thing withheld. All the wild and whirling things that are let… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“International peace means a peace between nations, not a peace after the destruction of nations, like the Buddhist peace after the destruction… — G.K. Chesterton All-things-considered 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
“He thought his detective brain as good as the criminal's, which was true. But he fully realised the disadvantage. "The criminal is… — G.K. Chesterton Coffee cup Copy Share Image
“There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.” — G.K. Chesterton Prison Copy Share Image
“Towards the end of the nineteenth century there appeared its two incredible figures; they were the pure Conservative and the pure Progressive;… — G.K. Chesterton History Copy Share Image
“The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised… — G.K. Chesterton Dreams Copy Share Image
“You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchy Copy Share Image
“The modern instinct is that if the heart of man is evil, there is nothing that remains good. But the older feeling… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“for a large lemon moon was only just setting in the forest of high grass above their heads,” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But there is a way of despising the dandelion which is not that of the dreary pessimist, but of the more offensive… — G.K. Chesterton Gratitude Copy Share Image
“Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. The mere minimum of the Church would… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“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
“Under the eighteenth century fashion people did not so much all pretend to be young, as all agree to be old.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times.” — G.K. Chesterton Time Copy Share Image
“Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you?” — G.K. Chesterton Happiness Copy Share Image
“A real problem only occurs when there are admittedly disadvantages in all courses that can be pursued. If it is discovered just… — G.K. Chesterton Disadvantage Copy Share Image
“If no apple has ever been shot off a boy's head from the beginning of the world, it may be done tomorrow… — G.K. Chesterton Ananke Copy Share Image
“The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen. …there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people on… — G.K. Chesterton Life Copy Share Image
“It is incomprehensible to me that any thinker can calmly call himself a modernist; he might as well call himself a Thursdayite.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A man who thinks much about success must be the drowsiest sentimentalist; for he must be always looking back. If he only… — G.K. Chesterton Success Copy Share Image
