“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 America Copy Share Image
“modern people think that any one who makes himself slightly uncomfortable in public will immediately be uproariously popular.” — G.K. Chesterton Modern People 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 Satire Copy Share Image
“He has a fancy for always sitting in a pitch-dark room. He says it makes his thoughts brighter.” — G.K. Chesterton Dark room Copy Share Image
“Take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages.” — G.K. Chesterton Courage 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 Glass Copy Share Image
“The devil takes us to the top of an exceeding high mountain and makes us dizzy; but God lets us look at… — G.K. Chesterton Devil Copy Share Image
“Every flirtation is a marriage; it is a marriage in this frightful sense; that it is irrevocable.” — G.K. Chesterton Flirtation Copy Share Image
“He declares his privacy is temporary and justified, and promises to explain before the wedding. That is all that anyone knows for… — G.K. Chesterton Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt depressed even… — G.K. Chesterton Depression Copy Share Image
“When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you, be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to… — G.K. Chesterton Commandment 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
“The materialist thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think [the materialist] a slave because… — G.K. Chesterton Determinism Copy Share Image
“In one sense at any rate it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us… — G.K. Chesterton Books 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 Demands Copy Share Image
“Do you think Friday unlucky? No, I think Friday lucky, All Christian people, whatever their lighter superstitions, have always thought Friday lucky.… — G.K. Chesterton Friday Copy Share Image
“Is that all?" asked Flambeau after a long pause. "Have we got to the dull truth at last?" "Oh, no," said Father… — G.K. Chesterton Theory Copy Share Image
“The weak point in the whole of Carlyle's case for aristocracy lies, indeed, in his most celebrated phrase. Carlyle said that men… — G.K. Chesterton Original sin Copy Share Image
“I could not understand why these romancers never took the trouble to find out a few elementary facts about the thing they… — G.K. Chesterton Anti-catholicism Copy Share Image
“It was like the face of some ancient archangel, judging justly after heroic wars. There was laughter in the eyes, and in… — G.K. Chesterton Archangel Copy Share Image
“It will be said that a rational person accepts the world as mixed of good and evil with decent satisfaction and decent… — G.K. Chesterton Contentment Copy Share Image
“All the great groups that stood about the Cross represent in one way or another the great historical truth of the time;… — G.K. Chesterton Good friday Copy Share Image
“A real problem only occurs when there are admittedly disadvantages in all courses that can be pursued. If it is discovered just… — G.K. Chesterton Disadvantage Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age” — G.K. Chesterton Catholic Copy Share Image
“The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that… — G.K. Chesterton History Copy Share Image
“Then I realized that for eighteen hundred years the Church Militant had not been a pageant, but a riot—and a suppressed riot.… — G.K. Chesterton Eighteen Years Copy Share Image
“The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it… — G.K. Chesterton Mind opening Copy Share Image
“I am sure that if triangles ever were loved, they were loved for being triangular.” — G.K. Chesterton Triangles Copy Share Image
“The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.” — G.K. Chesterton Comedy Copy Share Image
“The big commercial concerns of to-day are quite exceptionally incompetent. They will be even more incompetent when they are omnipotent.” — G.K. Chesterton Incompetent Copy Share Image
“There is a certain solid use in fools. It is not so much that they rush in where angels fear to tread,… — G.K. Chesterton Foolishness Copy Share Image
Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“We have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule; rather we must crown the much more exceptional man… — G.K. Chesterton Crown 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 Betray Copy Share Image
“Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal; the shock of beauty is when the irresistible force hits the immovable post.” — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“Father Brown: ... one can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place” — G.K. Chesterton Father Copy Share Image
“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the… — G.K. Chesterton Artist Copy Share Image
“Is it 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
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