“The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant.” — G.K. Chesterton Addiction Copy Share Image
“We are all revenants; all living Christians are dead pagans walking about.” — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“I could forgive you even your cruelty if it were not for your calm.” — G.K. Chesterton Calm Copy Share Image
“I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of… — G.K. Chesterton Independent thinking Copy Share Image
“The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“For in the average human house there is one hole by which money comes in and a hundred by which it goes… — G.K. Chesterton Money Copy Share Image
“The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times.” — G.K. Chesterton Church Copy Share Image
“The most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing--such as making love.” — G.K. Chesterton Comedy Copy Share Image
“sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late” — G.K. Chesterton History Copy Share Image
“You say you are a poet of law; I saw you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not… — G.K. Chesterton Contradiction Copy Share Image
“For the two things that a healthy person hates most between heaven and hell are a woman who is not dignified and… — G.K. Chesterton Hates Copy Share Image
“Job was comfortless before the speech of Jehovah and is comforted after it. He has been told nothing, but he feels the… — G.K. Chesterton Communication Copy Share Image
“The transition from the good man to the saint is a sort of revolution; by which one for whom all things illustrate… — G.K. Chesterton Good man Copy Share Image
“A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice… — G.K. Chesterton Amateurs Copy Share Image
“Reason is always reasonable, even in the last limbo, in the lost borderland of all things. I know that people charge the… — G.K. Chesterton Nature Copy Share Image
“Now in history there is no Revolution that is not a Restoration. Among the many things that leave me doubtful about the… — G.K. Chesterton Habits Copy Share Image
“We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is… — G.K. Chesterton Discuss Copy Share Image
“Odd, isn't it," he said, "that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain… — G.K. Chesterton Repent Copy Share Image
“But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit… — G.K. Chesterton Habits Copy Share Image
“Well, hang it all,’ he said, ‘he was only an atheist.’ ‘I’m afraid I don’t know what you mean,’ said the Inspector,… — G.K. Chesterton Ten commandments Copy Share Image
“The vision which has been so faintly suggested in these pages has never been confined to monks or even to friars. It… — G.K. Chesterton Dreams Copy Share Image
“Rossetti makes the remark somewhere, bitterly but with great truth, that the worst moment for the atheist is when he is really… — G.K. Chesterton Atheist Copy Share Image
“Much of our modern difficulty, in religion and other things, arises merely from this: that we confuse the word "indefinable" with the… — G.K. Chesterton Indefinable 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 Monks Copy Share Image
“People are very curious nowadays in their way of talking about "the spirit" of a thing. There is, for example, a particular… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity 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
“Whether the human mind can advance or not, is a question too little discussed, for nothing can be more dangerous than to… — G.K. Chesterton Human brain Copy Share Image
“He asks all the questions that there are, and some that there aren't” — G.K. Chesterton Asks Copy Share Image
“but for me all good things come to a point, swords for instance.” — G.K. Chesterton Good thing Copy Share Image
“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.” — G.K. Chesterton Appreciation Copy Share Image
“Of all horrible religions the most horrible is the worship of hte god within.” — G.K. Chesterton Horrible Copy Share Image
“The duty of the artist lies in keeping alive a sense of wonder in the world.” — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.” — G.K. Chesterton Paradox Copy Share Image
