“But in order that life should be a story or romance to us, it is necessary that a great part of it,… — G.K. Chesterton Life Copy Share Image
“But the whole modern world, or at any rate the whole modern Press, has a perpetual and consuming terror of plain morals.… — G.K. Chesterton Journalism Copy Share Image
“But there is a way of despising the dandelion which is not that of the dreary pessimist, but of the more offensive… — G.K. Chesterton Gratitude Copy Share Image
“Sirs, I am but a nameless man, A rhymester without a home, Yet since I come of the Wessex clay And carry… — G.K. Chesterton Heathen Copy Share Image
“The curious culture of the modern suburb will believe anything it is told in the papers about the wickedness of the Pope,… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“All the terms used in the science books, 'law,' 'necessity,' 'order,' 'tendency,' and so on, are really unintellectual … The only words… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“In the specially Christian case we have to react against the heavy bias of fatigue. It is almost impossible to make the… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“It is as if a man were asked, 'What is the use of a hammer?' and answered, 'To make hammers'; and when… — G.K. Chesterton Human life Copy Share Image
“That Jones shall worship the god within him turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones. Let Jones worship the… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“Our friend Tuesday," said the President in a deep voice at once of quietude and volume, "our friend Tuesday doesn't seem to… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchist 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
“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
“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 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
“That a story has been told all over the place at some time or other, not only does not prove that it… — G.K. Chesterton Time Copy Share Image
“Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. It is the resistance offered to definite ideas… — G.K. Chesterton Bigotry Copy Share Image
“There are some refusals which, though they may be done what is called conscientiously, yet carry so much of their whole horror… — G.K. Chesterton Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“This is the mighty and branching tree called mythology which ramifies round the whole world whose remote branches under separate skies bear… — G.K. Chesterton Believe in god Copy Share Image
“If the characters are not wicked, the book is." We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister… — G.K. Chesterton Book Copy Share Image
“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of… — G.K. Chesterton Despair Copy Share Image
“When the old Liberals removed the gags from all the heresies, their idea was that religious and philosophical discoveries might thus be… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“He stared and talked at the girl's red hair and amused face for what seemed to be a few minutes; and then,… — G.K. Chesterton Long ago Copy Share Image
“The truth is that exploration and enlargement make the world smaller. The telegraph and the steamboat make the world smaller. The telescope… — G.K. Chesterton Exploration Copy Share Image
“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of… — G.K. Chesterton Book Copy Share Image
“And well may God with the serving-folk Cast in His dreadful lot; Is not He too a servant, And is not He… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I found that the very people who said that mankind was one church from Plato to Emerson were the very people who… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If we take any other doctrine that has been called old-fashioned we shall find the case the same. It is the same,… — G.K. Chesterton Respect Copy Share Image
“And as I close this chaotic volume I open again the strange small book from which all Christianity came; and I am… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“The vulgar modern argument used against religion, and lately against common decency, would be absolutely fatal to any idea of liberty. It… — G.K. Chesterton Argument Copy Share Image
“How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“It is foolish, generally speaking, for a philosopher to set fire to another philosopher in Smithfield Market because they do not agree… — G.K. Chesterton Middle ages Copy Share Image
“Now here comes in the whole collapse and huge blunder of our age. We have mixed up two different things, two opposite… — G.K. Chesterton Changing the world Copy Share Image
“Plato in some sense anticipated the Catholic realism, as attacked by the heretical nominalism, by insisting on the equally fundamental fact that… — G.K. Chesterton Nominalism Copy Share Image
“Those who complain that Catholicism cannot say anything new, seldom think it necessary to say anything new about Catholicism. As a matter… — G.K. Chesterton Education Copy Share Image
“Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and… — G.K. Chesterton Allies Copy Share Image
“We must have several word-signs," said Syme seriously -- "words that we are likely to want, fine shades of meaning. My favourite… — G.K. Chesterton Language Copy Share Image
