“This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but… — G.K. Chesterton Commandments Copy Share Image
“Moderation is not a compromise; moderation is a passion; the passion of great judges.” — G.K. Chesterton Passion Copy Share Image
“It is as if a man were asked, 'What is the use of a hammer?' and answered, 'To make hammers'; and when… — G.K. Chesterton Human life Copy Share Image
“But you will admit I kept my promise; I have shown you something in the village considerably more creepy than a corpse;… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“They twisted even decent sin to shapes not to be named: Men were ashamed of honour; but we were not ashamed.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Men have not got tired of Christianity; they have never found enough Christianity to get tired of. Men have never wearied of… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things… — G.K. Chesterton Architecture Copy Share Image
“In the specially Christian case we have to react against the heavy bias of fatigue. It is almost impossible to make the… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo goo Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo Googly, googly, googly goo: That’s how we fill a column.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Because we are not in a civilization which believes strongly in oracles or sacred places, we see the full frenzy of those… — G.K. Chesterton North pole Copy Share Image
“There was something that He hid from all men, when he went up a mountain to pray. There was something that he… — G.K. Chesterton Christ Copy Share Image
“All the terms used in the science books, 'law,' 'necessity,' 'order,' 'tendency,' and so on, are really unintellectual .... The only words… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“The moment we have snapped the spell of conventional beauty, there are a million beautiful faces waiting for us everywhere, just as… — G.K. Chesterton Beautiful face Copy Share Image
“I could not understand why these romancers never took the trouble to find out a few elementary facts about the thing they… — G.K. Chesterton Anti-catholicism Copy Share Image
“The common conception among the dregs of Darwinian culture is that men have slowly worked their way out of inequality into a… — G.K. Chesterton Equality Copy Share Image
“it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The… — G.K. Chesterton Facts Copy Share Image
“vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a… — G.K. Chesterton Architecture Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately he was one of those who always tend to take their own fancies seriously; and in whose otherwise legitimate extravagance there… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There is only one thing that can never go past a certain point in its alliance with oppression--and that is orthodoxy. I… — G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy Copy Share Image
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses… — G.K. Chesterton Catholic Copy Share Image
“Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary… — G.K. Chesterton Health Copy Share Image
“If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real;… — G.K. Chesterton Cynicism Copy Share Image
“For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when… — G.K. Chesterton Crisis Copy Share Image
“It has been proved a hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make them angry, even unto… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
