“You don't expect me," he said, "to revolutionize society on this lawn?" Syme looked straight into his eyes and smiled sweetly. "No,… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchy Copy Share Image
“the function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange; not so much… — G.K. Chesterton Imagination Copy Share Image
“It is constantly assured, especially in our Tolstoyan tendencies, that when the lion lies down with the lamb the lion becomes lamb-like.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It may be incredible that one creed is the truth and the others are relatively false. At the same time, it is… — G.K. Chesterton Chesterton Copy Share Image
“the sixteenth-century schism was really a belated revolt of the thirteenth-century pessimists. It was a back-wash of the old Augustinian Puritanism against… — G.K. Chesterton Revolution Copy Share Image
“Now for St. Francis nothing was ever in the background. We might say that his mind had no background, except perhaps that… — G.K. Chesterton Death 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 Revolution 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 Modern world Copy Share Image
“Well, you have said that you were quite certain I was not a serious anarchist. Does this place strike you as being… — G.K. Chesterton Abolish 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 International Idea, The largest and the clearest, Is welding all the nations now, Except the one that’s nearest. This compromise has… — G.K. Chesterton Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“The little sins are sometimes harder to confess than the big ones—but that's why it's so important to confess them.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“This is the only period in all human history when people were proud of being modern. For though to-day is always to-day… — G.K. Chesterton History Copy Share Image
“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years.” — G.K. Chesterton Society Copy Share Image
“We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are.… — G.K. Chesterton Life Copy Share Image
“The vessel was just comfortable for two people; there was room only for necessities, and Flambeau had stocked it with such things… — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy Copy Share Image
“No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on… — G.K. Chesterton Ordinary man Copy Share Image
“England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed, for an instant, that… — G.K. Chesterton Human soul Copy Share Image
“The romantic seeks only to get his head into the heavens. The rationalist seeks to get the heavens into his head –… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice. He can only… — G.K. Chesterton Death 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 Copy Share Image
“In a word, God paints in many colors; but he never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“His soul swayed in a vertigo of moral indecision. He had only to snap the thread of a rash vow made to… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchy Copy Share Image
“Nine times out of ten a man’s broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This is not particularly paradoxical; it is,… — G.K. Chesterton Dreams Copy Share Image
