“Perhaps you know that you are the King of England; but why do you care?” — G.K. Chesterton England Copy Share Image
“There are no rationalists. We all believe fairy-tales, and live in them.” — G.K. Chesterton Fairy Copy Share Image
“A blind man may be picturesque; but it requires two eyes to see the picture.” — G.K. Chesterton Blind Copy Share Image
“When duty and religion are really destroyed, it will be by the rich.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“the instinct of democracy is like the instinct of one woman, wild but quite right” — G.K. Chesterton Democracy Copy Share Image
“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbors.” — G.K. Chesterton Friendship Copy Share Image
“Take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages.” — G.K. Chesterton Courage Copy Share Image
“Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.” — G.K. Chesterton Satire Copy Share Image
“He has a fancy for always sitting in a pitch-dark room. He says it makes his thoughts brighter.” — G.K. Chesterton Dark room Copy Share Image
“Americans... are the most idealistic people in the whole world. Their only danger is that the idealist can easily become the idolator.” — G.K. Chesterton America Copy Share Image
“modern people think that any one who makes himself slightly uncomfortable in public will immediately be uproariously popular.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There is only one thing that that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.” — G.K. Chesterton Courage Copy Share Image
“German soldiers look as if they despised you, but French soldiers as if they despised you and themselves even more that you.” — G.K. Chesterton German soldiers Copy Share Image
“How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing… — G.K. Chesterton Church Copy Share Image
“If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance." "Eh?" said Syme, staring. "The soldier must be… — G.K. Chesterton Anger Copy Share Image
“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the… — G.K. Chesterton Every morning Copy Share Image
“But though some punishments are more inhuman than others there is no such thing as humane punishment. As long as nineteen men… — G.K. Chesterton Punishments Copy Share Image
“When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends : "What a glorious… — G.K. Chesterton Broadway Copy Share Image
“Father Brown got to his feet, putting his hands behind him. 'Odd, isn't it,' he said, 'that a thief and a vagabond… — G.K. Chesterton Lowly Copy Share Image
“Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well… — G.K. Chesterton Monday Copy Share Image
“Mysticism conceives something transcending experience; religion seeks glimpses of a better good or a worse evil than experience can give. Reincarnation need… — G.K. Chesterton Mysticism Copy Share Image
“I shall approach. Before taking off his hat, I shall take off my own. I shall say, "The Marquis de Saint Eustache,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The man who said, "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed," put the eulogy quite inadequately and… — G.K. Chesterton Eulogy Copy Share Image
“This very pride in keeping his word was that he was keeping it to miscreants. It was his last triumph over these… — G.K. Chesterton Dark room Copy Share Image
“I cannot count the pebbles in the brook. Well hath He spoken: "Swear not by thy head. Thou knowest not the hairs,"… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The curse that came before history has laid on us all a tendency to be weary of wonders. If we saw the… — G.K. Chesterton Darkness Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests… — G.K. Chesterton Authority Copy Share Image
“Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our… — G.K. Chesterton Culture Copy Share Image
“Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things… — G.K. Chesterton Architecture Copy Share Image
“The dragon without St. George would not even be grotesque.” — G.K. Chesterton Dragon Copy Share Image
“He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.” — G.K. Chesterton Angel Copy Share Image
“Take away the supernatural, and what remains is the unnatural.” — G.K. Chesterton Miracles Copy Share Image
