“however, that the controversies left Summers Minor comparatively” — G.K. Chesterton Controversies Copy Share Image
“His eyes were alive with intellectual torture, as if pure thought was pain.” — G.K. Chesterton Mind Copy Share Image
“Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism.” — G.K. Chesterton Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Change is about the narrowest and hardest groove that a man can get into.” — G.K. Chesterton Change Copy Share Image
“He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments. It” — G.K. Chesterton Commandments Copy Share Image
“The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“to be breakable is not the same as to be perishable. Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant; simply… — G.K. Chesterton Breakable Copy Share Image
“Of course sane people always thought the aim of marriage was the procreation of children to the glory of God or according… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“The gentlemen are up there, sare," he said. "They do talk and they do laugh at what they talk. They do say… — G.K. Chesterton Bombs Copy Share Image
“In short, we do not get good laws to restrain bad people. We get good people to restrain bad laws.” — G.K. Chesterton Bad laws Copy Share Image
“Really," said Gregory superciliously, "the examples you choose–" "I beg your pardon," said Syme grimly, "I thought we had abolished all conventions.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.” — G.K. Chesterton Laughter Copy Share Image
“For those in whom a mere reaction has thus become an obsession, I do seriously recommend the imaginative effort of conceiving the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Does it never strike you that doubt can be a madness, as well as faith? That asking questions may be a disease,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The common conception among the dregs of Darwinian culture is that men have slowly worked their way out of inequality into a… — G.K. Chesterton Darwinian Copy Share Image
“The poet will be discontented even in the streets of heaven. The poet is always in revolt." "There again," said Syme irritably,… — G.K. Chesterton Discontent Copy Share Image
“We cannot teach citizenship if we are not citizens; we cannot free others if we have forgotten the appetite of freedom. Education… — G.K. Chesterton Freedom Copy Share Image
“We may repeat here that these pages propose mainly to show one thing: that progress ought to be based on principle, while… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“the sixteenth-century schism was really a belated revolt of the thirteenth-century pessimists. It was a back-wash of the old Augustinian Puritanism against… — G.K. Chesterton Revolution Copy Share Image
“All that is mere rationalism; the superstition (that is the unreasoning repugnance and terror) is in the person who admits there can… — G.K. Chesterton Eugenics Copy Share Image
“The sages have a hundred maps to give That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree They rattle reason out through many… — G.K. Chesterton Astronomy Copy Share Image
“The Americans are very patriotic, and wish to make their new citizens patriotic Americans. But it is the idea of making a… — G.K. Chesterton America Copy Share Image
“The substance of all such paganism may be summarised thus. It is an attempt to reach the divine reality through the imagination… — G.K. Chesterton Paganism Copy Share Image
“Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“If our life is ever really as beautiful as a fairy tale, we shall have to remember that all the beauty of… — G.K. Chesterton Beauty Copy Share Image
“The favourite evolutionary argument finds its best answer in the axe. The Evolutionist says, "Where do you draw the line?" the Revolutionist… — G.K. Chesterton Argument Copy Share Image
“Now for St. Francis nothing was ever in the background. We might say that his mind had no background, except perhaps that… — G.K. Chesterton Bird Copy Share Image
“A queer and almost mad notion seems to have got into the modern head that, if you mix up everybody and everything… — G.K. Chesterton Friendship Copy Share Image
“His principle can be quite simply stated: he refuses to die while he is still alive. He seeks to remind himself, by… — G.K. Chesterton Best friend Copy Share Image
“He defended respectability with violence and exaggeration.” — G.K. Chesterton Conservatism Copy Share Image
“The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.” — G.K. Chesterton Comedy Copy Share Image
“Angus...had hitherto maintained hilarious ease from motives of mental hygiene...” — G.K. Chesterton Angus Copy Share Image
“The glory of heaven deepened and darkened around the sublime vulgarity of man;” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“He who weds the spirit of the times quickly becomes a widower.” — G.K. Chesterton Marriage Copy Share Image
“All roads lead to Rome; which is one reason why many people never get there.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.” — G.K. Chesterton Irreligion Copy Share Image
