“His soul swayed in a vertigo of moral indecision. He had only to snap the thread of a rash vow made to… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchy 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 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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 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
“Nine times out of ten a man’s broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This is not particularly paradoxical; it is,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I suppose I do deserve it; for not noticing the nearest helpers I have. But you must admit the accumulation of incidents… — G.K. Chesterton Blank page Copy Share Image
“The world can be made beautiful again by viewing it as a battlefield. When we have defined and isolated the evil things,… — G.K. Chesterton Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“For most people there is a fascinating inconsistency in the position of St. Francis. He expressed in loftier and bolder language than… — G.K. Chesterton Faith 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
“If I beat my grandmother to death to-morrow in the middle of Battersea Park, you may be perfectly certain that people will… — G.K. Chesterton Aesthetics Copy Share Image
“A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“I see everything," he cried, "everything that there is. Why does each thing on the earth war against each other thing? Why… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchist Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can… — G.K. Chesterton Internationalism Copy Share Image
“There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact… — G.K. Chesterton Creeds Copy Share Image
“I know the Unknown God," said the little priest, with an unconscious grandeur of certitude that stood up like a granite tower.… — G.K. Chesterton Satan Copy Share Image
“It is at least as possible for a Philadelphian to feel the presence of Penn and Franklin as for an Englishman to… — G.K. Chesterton New york city Copy Share Image
“But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Towards the end of the nineteenth century there appeared its two incredible figures; they were the pure Conservative and the pure Progressive;… — G.K. Chesterton Conservative Copy Share Image
“It is not true that we have never been broken. We have been broken upon the wheel. It is not true that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The… — G.K. Chesterton Business Copy Share Image
“Adam Wayne, the conqueror, with his face flung back and his mane like a lion's, stood with his great sword point upwards,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The fallacy is one of the fifty fallacies that come from the modern madness for biological or bodily metaphors. It is convenient… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“A man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of Adam. He supposes that… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“A man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice. He can only… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
“The poor have been rebels, but they have never become anarchists: they have got more interest than anyone in there being some… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchists Copy Share Image
“An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age… — G.K. Chesterton Habits Copy Share Image
“A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare's comedy. No… — G.K. Chesterton Comedy Copy Share Image
“An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age… — G.K. Chesterton Habits Copy Share Image
“What a curious man you are!’ she said. ‘Why should you disbelieve the history?’ ‘I disbelieve the history because it isn’t history,’… — G.K. Chesterton End of the world Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or… — G.K. Chesterton Reformer Copy Share Image
“Therefore I see no wrong in riding with the Nightmare to-night; she whinnies to me from the rocking tree-tops and the roaring… — G.K. Chesterton Fancies Copy Share Image
“No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on… — G.K. Chesterton Ordinary man Copy Share Image
“Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which you are accustomed to seeing or hearing… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest… — G.K. Chesterton Human life Copy Share Image
