“Is literature better, is politics better, for having discarded the moralist and the philosopher?” — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in… — G.K. Chesterton Evolution Copy Share Image
“The last lingering shadow of the Jesuit, gliding behind curtains and concealing himself in cupboards, faded from my young life about the… — G.K. Chesterton Catholicism Copy Share Image
“My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Then he realised (in some odd way) that the silence was rather a living silence than a dead one.” — G.K. Chesterton Silence Copy Share Image
“I cannot agree with the gentleman in the magenta coat that Potter’s Pond is only a wretched little hamlet. But it is… — G.K. Chesterton Reading the bible Copy Share Image
“He felt the full warmth of that pleasure from which the proud shut themselves out; the pleasure which not only goes with… — G.K. Chesterton Humiliation Copy Share Image
“Then may I ask you to swear by whatever gods or saints your religion involves that you will not reveal what I… — G.K. Chesterton Poetry Copy Share Image
“it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not only the type, but is the crown and flower of all actual… — G.K. Chesterton Humour Copy Share Image
“The detail over which these monks went mad with joy was the universe itself; the only thing really worthy of enjoyment. The… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The poet will be discontented even in the streets of heaven. The poet is always in revolt." "There again," said Syme irritably,… — G.K. Chesterton Discontent Copy Share Image
“I have wondered,' said the Marquis, taking a great bite out of a slice of bread and jam, 'whether it wouldn't be… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Admiral Pendragon sat down again as abruptly as he had risen; but he sat quite still, and when he spoke again it… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could… — G.K. Chesterton Creation Copy Share Image
“I shall approach. Before taking off his hat, I shall take off my own. I shall say, "The Marquis de Saint Eustache,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I have never been able to understand where people got the idea that democracy was in some way opposed to tradition. It… — G.K. Chesterton Democracy Copy Share Image
“Liberalism has been degraded into liberality. Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb. The Jacobin could… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“The whole imaginative effort of Walt Whitman was really an effort to absorb and animate these multitudinous modern repetitions; and Walt Whitman… — G.K. Chesterton Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Father Brown smiled faintly. ‘I suppose in one sense,’ he said, ‘it was a matter of special knowledge; almost a professional matter,… — G.K. Chesterton Old school Copy Share Image
“Human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind; as the sanity of the Old Testament truly said,… — G.K. Chesterton Dreams Copy Share Image
“If you want to succeed at whist, either be a good whist-player, or play with marked cards. You may want a book… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are… — G.K. Chesterton Home Copy Share Image
“I see everything," he cried, "everything that there is. Why does each thing on the earth war against each other thing? Why… — G.K. Chesterton Nature Copy Share Image
“Those who complain that Catholicism cannot say anything new, seldom think it necessary to say anything new about Catholicism. As a matter… — G.K. Chesterton Education Copy Share Image
