“Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness.” — G.K. Chesterton Confidence Copy Share Image
“As if everyone did not know that while saints can afford to be dirty, seducers have to be clean.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is vain for Mr. McCabe to say that a ballet is a part of him. He should be part of a… — G.K. Chesterton Ballet Copy Share Image
“I dare say that when I get out of this bed I shall do some deed of an almost terrible virtue.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Life was a fly that faded, and death a drone that stung; The world was very old indeed when you and I… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
“Let us then, by all means, be proud of the virtues that we have not got; but let us not be too… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“There was something of relative freedom in that feudal gesture of the vow; for no man asks vows from slaves anymore than… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Wherever men are still theological there is still some chance of their being logical.” — G.K. Chesterton Catholic Copy Share Image
“He thought his detective brain as good as the criminal's, which was true. But he fully realised the disadvantage. "The criminal is… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“And it did certainly appear that the prophets had put the people (engaged in the old game of Cheat the Prophet) in… — G.K. Chesterton Prophets Copy Share Image
“The fierce poet of the Middle Ages wrote, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here," over the gates of the lower world.… — G.K. Chesterton Hope 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“His principle can be quite simply stated: he refuses to die while he is still alive.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Life (according to the faith) is very like a serial story in a magazine: life ends with the promise (or menace) "to… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a… — G.K. Chesterton Architecture Copy Share Image
“I can imagine no more successful and productive form of manufacture than that of making mountains out of molehills.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“For the moral basis, it is obvious that man's ethical responsibility varies with his knowledge of consequences” — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“But always, it has been truly said, the savage is talkative about his mythology and taciturn about his religion.” — G.K. Chesterton Religion Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing to remember about our time, of course, is simply that it is a time- we all instinctively think of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“They twisted even decent sin to shapes not to be named: Men were ashamed of honour; but we were not ashamed.” — G.K. Chesterton Ashamed 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
“A finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“Really, if this is being glaringly good I must confess that the glare does not dazzle me.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most… — G.K. Chesterton Conservatism Copy Share Image
“A hunger for civilization is an appetite not easily appreciated now, when people are so overcivilized that they can only have a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Under the eighteenth century fashion people did not so much all pretend to be young, as all agree to be old.” — G.K. Chesterton Eighteenth Copy Share Image
“A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“The soldier must be calm in the thick of the battle," pursued the policeman. "The composure of an army is the anger… — G.K. Chesterton Peace Copy Share Image
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