“Real democrats always insist that England is an aristocratic country. Real aristocrats always insist (for some mysterious reason) that it is a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“You can find all the new ideas in the old books; only there you will find them balanced, kept in their place,… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“And the greatest of the poets, when he defined the poet, did not say that he gave us the universe or the… — G.K. Chesterton Language 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
“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
“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
“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
“We are perhaps permitted tragedy as a sort of merciful comedy: because the frantic energy of divine things would knock us down… — G.K. Chesterton Humor Copy Share Image
“Jones had a dog; it had a chain; Not often worn, not causing pain; But, as the I.K.L. had passed Their 'Unleashed… — G.K. Chesterton Isle of wight Copy Share Image
“But you will admit I kept my promise; I have shown you something in the village considerably more creepy than a corpse;… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The work of the philosophical policeman," replied the man in blue, "is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on… — G.K. Chesterton Alien Copy Share Image
“An artist is identical with an anarchist,' he cried. 'You might transpose the words anywhere. An anarchist is an artist. The man… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchist Copy Share Image
“I feel grateful for the slight sprain which has introduced this mysterious and fascinating division between one of my feet and the… — G.K. Chesterton 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 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 Copy Share Image
“It is often said by the critics of Christian origins that certain ritual feasts, processions or dances are really of pagan origin.… — G.K. Chesterton Christian Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is like the eye of a man who is too tired to see the difference between blue and green.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“wish to deal with my most distinguished contemporaries, not personally or in a merely literary manner, but in relation to the real… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Graham of Claverhouse, you know, who persecuted the Covenanters and had a black horse that could ride straight up a precipice. Don’t… — G.K. Chesterton Quiet man Copy Share Image
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The last lingering shadow of the Jesuit, gliding behind curtains and concealing himself in cupboards, faded from my young life about the… — G.K. Chesterton Catholicism Copy Share Image
“Liberalism has been degraded into liberality. Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb. The Jacobin could… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“If the moderns really want a simple religion of love, they must look for it in the Athanasian Creed. The truth is… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“It is a good thing for a man to live in a family for the same reason that it is a good… — G.K. Chesterton Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to… — G.K. Chesterton Belief Copy Share Image
“Let me explain a little: Certain things are bad so far as they go, such as pain, and no one, not even… — G.K. Chesterton Good enough Copy Share Image
“Very deep things in our nature, some dim sense of the dependence of great things upon small, some dark suggestion that the… — G.K. Chesterton Metaphors Copy Share Image
“Flambeau, once the most famous criminal in France and later a very private detective in England, had long retired from both professions.… — G.K. Chesterton Large family Copy Share Image
“But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be… — G.K. Chesterton Modern man Copy Share Image
“It is true that a man (a silly man) might make change itself his object or ideal. But as an ideal, change… — G.K. Chesterton Change Copy Share Image
“The Donkey When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely… — G.K. Chesterton Devil 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
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to… — G.K. Chesterton Culture Copy Share Image
“To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. Nor can I imagine anything that would do humanity… — G.K. Chesterton Strength Copy Share Image
“Saint-worship is not the same as hero-worship; it is a much less dangerous thing than hero-worship. For hero-worship generally means the absorption… — G.K. Chesterton Hero worship 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 Common sense Copy Share Image
“Father Brown was made of two men. There was a man of action, who was as modest as a primrose and as… — G.K. Chesterton Free thought Copy Share Image
