“The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
“The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he… — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy Copy Share Image
“Here dies another day During which I have had eyes, ears, hands And the great world round me; And with tomorrow begins… — G.K. Chesterton Another day Copy Share Image
“You irritate me sublimely. What can it be in me? Is it the relic of a moral sense?” — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“To be in a romance is to be in uncongenial surroundings. To be born into this earth is to be born into… — G.K. Chesterton Love Copy Share Image
“The devil can quote Scripture for his purpose; and the text of Scripture which he now most commonly quotes is, “The Kingdom… — G.K. Chesterton Kingdom of god Copy Share Image
“What a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad.” — G.K. Chesterton Strange world Copy Share Image
“But in practice the great difference between the medieval ethics and ours is that ours concentrate attention on the sins which are… — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy Copy Share Image
“Our age is obviously the Nonsense Age; the wiser sort of nonsense being provided for the children and the sillier sort of… — G.K. Chesterton Wisdom Copy Share Image
“Then the small man suddenly ran after them and said: "I want to get my haircut. I say, do you know a… — G.K. Chesterton Hair cut Copy Share Image
“You can find all the new ideas in the old books; only there you will find them balanced, kept in their place,… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the… — G.K. Chesterton Every morning Copy Share Image
“Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. It is the resistance offered to definite ideas… — G.K. Chesterton Bigotry Copy Share Image
“A blind man may be picturesque; but it requires two eyes to see the picture.” — G.K. Chesterton Blind man Copy Share Image
“La sua logica è straordinariamente lucida e fredda e invariabilmente lo porta fuori strada. Ma all'improvviso interviene la poesia in lui a… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.” — G.K. Chesterton Humor Copy Share Image
“I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come! wait and see me betray myself. I shall do it so… — G.K. Chesterton Betrayal Copy Share Image
“Americans... are the most idealistic people in the whole world. Their only danger is that the idealist can easily become the idolator.” — G.K. Chesterton Whole world Copy Share Image
“In short, the democratic faith is this: that the most terribly important things must be left to ordinary men themselves—the mating of… — G.K. Chesterton Important things Copy Share Image
“If the moderns really want a simple religion of love, they must look for it in the Athanasian Creed. The truth is… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“Evolution is a good example of that modern intelligence which, if it destroys anything, destroys itself. Evolution is either an innocent scientific… — G.K. Chesterton Earthly things Copy Share Image
“We are rarely in danger of examining to excess, especially when the subject is the shape of our own lives.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.” — G.K. Chesterton Science Copy Share Image
“Solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.” — G.K. Chesterton Laughter Copy Share Image
