“The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact… — G.K. Chesterton Democracy Copy Share Image
“It’s what I call common sense, properly understood,’ replied Father Brown. ’It really is more natural to believe a preternatural story, that… — G.K. Chesterton Implausible Copy Share Image
“He who weds the spirit of the times quickly becomes a widower.” — G.K. Chesterton Religion Copy Share Image
“why, nobody’s ever survived it! Look at all the people married since Adam and Eve—and all as dead as mutton.” — G.K. Chesterton Adam and eve Copy Share Image
“The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of… — G.K. Chesterton Catholic Copy Share Image
“Flambeau, once the most famous criminal in France and later a very private detective in England, had long retired from both professions.… — G.K. Chesterton Large family Copy Share Image
“Would you be so obliging as to tell me whose house this is?’ “`Mine,’ said the burglar, `May I present you to… — G.K. Chesterton Home Copy Share Image
“Another is the paradox of charity or chivalry that the weaker a thing is the more it should be respected, that the… — G.K. Chesterton Generosity Copy Share Image
“They are constantly colonists and emigrants ; they have the name of being at home in every country. But they are in… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“We are in this fairyland on sufferance; it is not for us to quarrel with the conditions under which we enjoy this… — G.K. Chesterton Dreams Copy Share Image
“If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just because he can… — G.K. Chesterton Goodness Copy Share Image
“There was something of relative freedom in that feudal gesture of the vow; for no man asks vows from slaves anymore than… — G.K. Chesterton Francis-of-assisi Copy Share Image
“all conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Really, if this is being glaringly good I must confess that the glare does not dazzle me.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We must have several word-signs," said Syme seriously -- "words that we are likely to want, fine shades of meaning. My favourite… — G.K. Chesterton Language Copy Share Image
“One could not imagine a process more open to the elephantine logic of the Bible-smasher than this: that the sun should be created… — G.K. Chesterton Creative art Copy Share Image
“Oh, what's the good of talking about men?" cried Mary impatiently; "why, one might as well be a lady novelist or some… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“No man demands what he desires; each man demands what he fancies he can get. Soon people forget what the man really… — G.K. Chesterton Life Copy Share Image
“The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: that people do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus… — G.K. Chesterton Kill Copy Share Image
“Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing – say Pimlico. If we think what is really best for Pimlico… — G.K. Chesterton Beauty Copy Share Image
“I do not object to Socialism because it will revolutionize our commerce, but because it will leave it so horribly the same.” — G.K. Chesterton Business Copy Share Image
“It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing… — G.K. Chesterton Freedom Copy Share Image
“Man does not necessarily begin with despotism because he is barbarous, but very often finds his way to despotism because he is… — G.K. Chesterton Democracy Copy Share Image
“The gentlemen are up there, sare," he said. "They do talk and they do laugh at what they talk. They do say… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
