“Dickens didn't write what people wanted. He wanted what people wanted.” — G.K. Chesterton Dickens Copy Share Image
“Without the family, we are helpless before the State.” — G.K. Chesterton Catholicism Copy Share Image
“The men signed of the cross of Christ go gaily in the dark.” — G.K. Chesterton Cross Copy Share Image
“Madness and despair are innocent enough. There are worse things, Flambeau.” — G.K. Chesterton Despair Copy Share Image
“We are the enemies of society, for society is the enemy of humanity.” — G.K. Chesterton Community Copy Share Image
“To the delight of the poetic little gutter boys in the little grey streets.” — G.K. Chesterton Boys Little Copy Share Image
“He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.” — G.K. Chesterton Angel Copy Share Image
“Se a servidão é melhor que a liberdade, isso é uma questão a ser discutida. Mas que a servidão dos antigos fez… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.” — G.K. Chesterton Character 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
“this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.” — G.K. Chesterton Conflict Copy Share Image
“An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.” — G.K. Chesterton Catholic Copy Share Image
“The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as because it cannot recover the normal.” — G.K. Chesterton Insane Copy Share Image
“Man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.” — G.K. Chesterton Character 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
“Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. The Catholic Church has for one of her… — G.K. Chesterton Failure Copy Share Image
“A martyr is a man who cares so much for something outside him, that he forgets his own personal life. A suicide… — G.K. Chesterton Martyr Copy Share Image
“I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of… — G.K. Chesterton Success Copy Share Image
“In truth it is inequality that is the illusion. The extreme disproportion between men, that we seem to see in life, is… — G.K. Chesterton Illusion Copy Share Image
“Look at the eyebrows. They mean that infernal pride which made Satan so proud that he sneered even at heaven when he… — G.K. Chesterton Look Eyebrows Copy Share Image
“First, it must be realized that liveliness in the preacher does not mean liveliness in the congregation. On the contrary, the extreme… — G.K. Chesterton Preacher Copy Share Image
“Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. Even the fastidious and unhappy who cannot read his books without a… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“I perceive that it is far more practical to begin at the beginning and discuss theories. I see that the men who… — G.K. Chesterton Education 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
“It is in our own daily life that we are to look for the portents and the prodigies… Compared with this life,… — G.K. Chesterton Daily life Copy Share Image
“The Christian admits that the universe is manifold and even miscellaneous, just as a sane man knows that he is complex. The… — G.K. Chesterton Christian Copy Share Image
“most cannibalism is not a primitive or even a bestial habit. It is artificial and even artistic; a sort of art for… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“To-day all our novels and newspapers will be found to be swarming with numberless allusions to the popular character called a Cave-Man.… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to… — G.K. Chesterton Optimist Copy Share Image
“The very rationalists who jeer at the trial by combat, in the old feudal ordeal, do in fact accept a trial by… — G.K. Chesterton History Copy Share Image
“Blessed are they who did not see, but being blind, believed.” — G.K. Chesterton Believed Copy Share Image
“The dragon without St. George would not even be grotesque.” — G.K. Chesterton Dragon Copy Share Image
“I know he is really happy, and yet I can never catch him at it.” — G.K. Chesterton Catch 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
“the instinct of democracy is like the instinct of one woman, wild but quite right” — G.K. Chesterton Democracy Copy Share Image
“When duty and religion are really destroyed, it will be by the rich.” — G.K. Chesterton Destroyed Copy Share Image
