“Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.” — G.K. Chesterton Book Copy Share Image
“For those in whom a mere reaction has thus become an obsession, I do seriously recommend the imaginative effort of conceiving the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I mean to keep the remaining shots for people in the shameful state you and I were in last night—I wish we… — G.K. Chesterton Life after death Copy Share Image
Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“I spare you,” said the Duke in a voice of inhuman pity. “I refuse. If I gave you the faintest hint of… — G.K. Chesterton True god Copy Share Image
“He stared and talked at the girl's red hair and amused face for what seemed to be a few minutes; and then,… — G.K. Chesterton Long ago Copy Share Image
“To give up one's love for one's country is very great. But to give up one's hate for one's country, this may… — G.K. Chesterton Love Copy Share Image
“I suppose I do deserve it; for not noticing the nearest helpers I have. But you must admit the accumulation of incidents… — G.K. Chesterton Blank page Copy Share Image
“No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerness in eating, drinking, or… — G.K. Chesterton Humility Copy Share Image
“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the… — G.K. Chesterton Whole world Copy Share Image
“The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on… — G.K. Chesterton Alien Copy Share Image
“I do not think that under modern Western materialism we should have anarchy. I doubt whether we should have enough individual valour… — G.K. Chesterton Freedom Copy Share Image
“And under all this vast illusion of the cosmopolitan planet, with its empires and its Reuter's agency, the real life of man… — G.K. Chesterton Astronomy Copy Share Image
“just as when we see a pig in a litter larger than the other pigs, we know that by an unalterable law… — G.K. Chesterton Politics Copy Share Image
“The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is… — G.K. Chesterton Eugenics Copy Share Image
“I hold it clear, therefore, if anything is clear about the business, that the Eugenists do not merely mean that the mass… — G.K. Chesterton Business Copy Share Image
“Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. Indigenous humans have always been sane… — G.K. Chesterton Health Copy Share Image
“At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, "Life is not worth living." We regard it as we regard… — G.K. Chesterton Fine day Copy Share Image
“The fallacy is one of the fifty fallacies that come from the modern madness for biological or bodily metaphors. It is convenient… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“The Aristocrat The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stay At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far… — G.K. Chesterton April fool Copy Share Image
“Job was comfortless before the speech of Jehovah and is comforted after it. He has been told nothing, but he feels the… — G.K. Chesterton Communication Copy Share Image
“Father Brown: ... one can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place” — G.K. Chesterton Father Copy Share Image
