“He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.” — G.K. Chesterton Human nature Copy Share Image
“The average pagan, like the average agnostic, would merely say that he was content with himself, but so insolently self-satisfied, that there… — G.K. Chesterton Humility Copy Share Image
“But the whole modern world, or at any rate the whole modern Press, has a perpetual and consuming terror of plain morals.… — G.K. Chesterton Modern world Copy Share Image
“Now, life, ordinary, jolly, heathen, human life, is simply chockful of these dead words and meaningless ceremonies. You will not escape from… — G.K. Chesterton Human life Copy Share Image
“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of… — G.K. Chesterton Book Copy Share Image
“He defended respectability with violence and exaggeration.” — G.K. Chesterton Conservatism Copy Share Image
“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbors.” — G.K. Chesterton Friendship Copy Share Image
“Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.” — G.K. Chesterton Irreligion 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
“however, that the controversies left Summers Minor comparatively” — G.K. Chesterton Summer Copy Share Image
“A man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of Adam. He supposes that… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“Some stupid people started the idea that because women obviously back up their own people through everything, therefore women are blind and… — G.K. Chesterton Stupid people Copy Share Image
“Why is it," he asked vaguely, "that I think you are quite a decent fellow? Why do I positively like you, Gregory?"… — G.K. Chesterton Time Copy Share Image
“Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our… — G.K. Chesterton Culture Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of revolutionists, as of most things – a good kind and a bad. The bad revolutionists destroy conventions… — G.K. Chesterton Revolution Copy Share Image
“Dickens didn't write what people wanted. He wanted what people wanted.” — G.K. Chesterton Dickens Copy Share Image
“He declares his privacy is temporary and justified, and promises to explain before the wedding. That is all that anyone knows for… — G.K. Chesterton Cybersecurity 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
“It is at least as possible for a Philadelphian to feel the presence of Penn and Franklin as for an Englishman to… — G.K. Chesterton New york city Copy Share Image
“Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only… — G.K. Chesterton Revolt Copy Share Image
“To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract… — G.K. Chesterton Criticism Copy Share Image
“Let us then, by all means, be proud of the virtues that we have not got; but let us not be too… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“A joke is by its nature a protest against sense. It is no good attacking nonsense for being successfully nonsensical.” — G.K. Chesterton Nature Copy Share Image
“Genuine controversy, fair cut and thrust before a common audience, has become in our special epoch very rare. For the sincere controversialist… — G.K. Chesterton Good listener Copy Share Image
“Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas,… — G.K. Chesterton Business Copy Share Image
