“There is only one thing that that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.” — G.K. Chesterton Courage Copy Share Image
“German soldiers look as if they despised you, but French soldiers as if they despised you and themselves even more that you.” — G.K. Chesterton German soldiers Copy Share Image
“How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing… — G.K. Chesterton Church Copy Share Image
“Of course sane people always thought the aim of marriage was the procreation of children to the glory of God or according… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in… — G.K. Chesterton Poor Copy Share Image
“to be breakable is not the same as to be perishable. Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant; simply… — G.K. Chesterton Breakable 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
“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 Bombs Copy Share Image
“In so far as religion is gone, reason is going. For they are both of the same primary and authoritative kind. They… — G.K. Chesterton Logic Copy Share Image
“Human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind; as the sanity of the Old Testament truly said,… — G.K. Chesterton Dreams Copy Share Image
“I can hardly conceive of any educated man believing in God at all without believing that God contains in Himself every perfection… — G.K. Chesterton Educated man Copy Share Image
“Many great religions, Pagan and Christian, have insisted on wine. Only one, I think, has insisted on Soap. You will find it… — G.K. Chesterton Christian Copy Share Image
“Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world… — G.K. Chesterton Essay Copy Share Image
“mankind have hitherto held the bond between man and woman so sacred, and the effect of it on the children so incalculable,… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself… — G.K. Chesterton New-atheism Copy Share Image
“Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on… — G.K. Chesterton Children 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 Lion Copy Share Image
“This is the first principle of democracy: that the essential things in men are the things they hold in common, not the… — G.K. Chesterton Falling in love Copy Share Image
“If you have, let us say, a theory about man, and if you can only prove it by talking about Plato and… — G.K. Chesterton George w Copy Share Image
“I mean to keep the remaining shots for people in the shameful state you and I were in last night—I wish we… — G.K. Chesterton Life after death Copy Share Image
“The horrible thing about all legal officials, even the best, about all judges, magistrates, barristers, detectives, and policeman, is not that they… — G.K. Chesterton Judges Copy Share Image
“There are, I believe, some who still deny that England is governed by an oligarchy. It is quite enough for me to… — G.K. Chesterton Oligarchy Copy Share Image
“Until we realize that things might not be, we cannot realize that things are. Until we see the background of darkness, we… — G.K. Chesterton Creation 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
“In short, we do not get good laws to restrain bad people. We get good people to restrain bad laws.” — G.K. Chesterton Bad laws Copy Share Image
“Really," said Gregory superciliously, "the examples you choose–" "I beg your pardon," said Syme grimly, "I thought we had abolished all conventions.” — G.K. Chesterton Conventions Copy Share Image
“For those in whom a mere reaction has thus become an obsession, I do seriously recommend the imaginative effort of conceiving the… — G.K. Chesterton Curious Copy Share Image
“We now have a strong desire for living combined with a strange carelessness about dying. We desire life like water and yet… — G.K. Chesterton Death 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
“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
“Every flirtation is a marriage; it is a marriage in this frightful sense; that it is irrevocable.” — G.K. Chesterton Flirtation 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
“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
“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
“sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late” — G.K. Chesterton History Copy Share Image
