“I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that happen here do… — G.K. Chesterton Earth Copy Share Image
“Most of the women were of the kind vaguely called emancipated, and professed some protest against male supremacy. Yet these new women… — G.K. Chesterton Feminism Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make… — G.K. Chesterton Apples Copy Share Image
“Who are you?' he asked suddenly. I'm not sure,' replied the other. 'I rather think I am your long-lost brother.' But I… — G.K. Chesterton Brother Copy Share Image
“Our existence may not be an intelligible justice, or even a recognizable wrong. But our existence is still a story. In the… — G.K. Chesterton Existence Copy Share Image
“To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch… — G.K. Chesterton Fitness Copy Share Image
“We will have have the dead at our councils. The ancient Greeks voted by stones; these shall vote by tombstones. It is… — G.K. Chesterton Ancient greek Copy Share Image
“The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. Before long the world will be cloven… — G.K. Chesterton Small things Copy Share Image
“The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world… — G.K. Chesterton Dead man Copy Share Image
“The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a… — G.K. Chesterton 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 Optimist Copy Share Image
“The very rationalists who jeer at the trial by combat, in the old feudal ordeal, do in fact accept a trial by… — G.K. Chesterton History Copy Share Image
“To-day all our novels and newspapers will be found to be swarming with numberless allusions to the popular character called a Cave-Man.… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“The Christian admits that the universe is manifold and even miscellaneous, just as a sane man knows that he is complex. The… — G.K. Chesterton Christian Copy Share Image
“I perceive that it is far more practical to begin at the beginning and discuss theories. I see that the men who… — G.K. Chesterton Education Copy Share Image
“Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary… — G.K. Chesterton Health Copy Share Image
“This is not a university town full of philosophies; it is a Zion of the hundred sieges raging with religions; not a… — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy Copy Share Image
“Thought only destroys because it broadens. A man’s brain is a bomb,” he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking… — G.K. Chesterton Brain Copy Share Image
“I believe firmly in the value of all vulgar notions, especially of vulgar jokes. When once you have got hold of a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The Skeleton Chattering finch and water-fly Are not merrier than I; Here among the flowers I lie Laughing everlastingly. No: I may… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
“Who would condescend to strike down the mere things he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like… — G.K. Chesterton Bravado Copy Share Image
“The evil of aristocracy is not that it necessarily leads to the infliction of bad things or the suffering of sad ones;… — G.K. Chesterton Aristocracy Copy Share Image
“Why is it," he asked vaguely, "that I think you are quite a decent fellow? Why do I positively like you, Gregory?"… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I have known some people of very modern views driven by their distress to the use of theological terms to which they… — G.K. Chesterton Inconvenience Copy Share Image
“I find it said, if only of Atys or Adonis, "There was a conception that the god sacrificed himself to himself." The… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the… — G.K. Chesterton Conceptions Copy Share Image
“Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost… — G.K. Chesterton Modern man Copy Share Image
“To these things do writers sink; and then the critics tell them that they “talk for effect”; and then the writers answer:… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“What makes it difficult for the average man to be a universalist is that the average man has to be a specialist;… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake… — G.K. Chesterton Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a… — G.K. Chesterton Christmas Copy Share Image
“No gleam of reason, no momentary return to first principles, no abstract asking of any obvious question, can interrupt this mad and… — G.K. Chesterton Revolution Copy Share Image
“I wish the world had been made in six days, and knocked to pieces again in six more. And I wish I… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical.… — G.K. Chesterton Crusades Copy Share Image
“A man who thinks a great deal about himself will try to be many-sided, attempt a theatrical excellence at all points, will… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A man is partially convinced because he has found this or that proof of the thing, and he can expound it. But… — G.K. Chesterton Epistemology Copy Share Image
“To give up one's love for one's country is very great. But to give up one's hate for one's country, this may… — G.K. Chesterton Hate Copy Share Image
“But in practice the great difference between the medieval ethics and ours is that ours concentrate attention on the sins which are… — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy Copy Share Image
