“He asks all the questions that there are, and some that there aren't” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I could forgive you even your cruelty if it were not for your calm.” — G.K. Chesterton Calm Copy Share Image
“The duty of the artist lies in keeping alive a sense of wonder in the world.” — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“Of all horrible religions the most horrible is the worship of hte god within.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.” — G.K. Chesterton Appreciation Copy Share Image
“We now have a strong desire for living combined with a strange carelessness about dying. We desire life like water and yet… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
“Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of… — G.K. Chesterton Evil Copy Share Image
“The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.” — G.K. Chesterton Anarchy Copy Share Image
“Is literature better, is politics better, for having discarded the moralist and the philosopher?” — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.” — G.K. Chesterton Thought Copy Share Image
“The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“I might point out that the rich do not so much buy honesty as curtains to cover dishonesty.” — G.K. Chesterton Dishonesty Copy Share Image
“Of the last two friends of yours who had the modern mind; one thought it wrong to eat fishes and the other… — G.K. Chesterton Fish Copy Share Image
“The servants of God who had been a besieged garrison became a marching army; the ways of the world were filled as… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a state of the soul; a state in which our natures are full of the wine of an ancient youth,… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“Man does not necessarily begin with despotism because he is barbarous, but very often finds his way to despotism because he is… — G.K. Chesterton Democracy Copy Share Image
“It does not, in the conventional phrase, accept the conclusions of science, for the simple reason that science has not concluded. To… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Men have not got tired of Christianity; they have never found enough Christianity to get tired of. Men have never wearied of… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“The whole imaginative effort of Walt Whitman was really an effort to absorb and animate these multitudinous modern repetitions; and Walt Whitman… — G.K. Chesterton Poetry Copy Share Image
“I am sure that it was only because Michael Angelo was engaged in the ancient and honourable occupation of lying in bed… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil. I say that… — G.K. Chesterton Libertarianism Copy Share Image
“Both aristocracy and democracy are human ideals: the one saying that all men are valuable, the other that some men are more… — G.K. Chesterton Aristocracy Copy Share Image
“My own general thesis was somewhat to this effect: that Artists have worried the world by being wantonly, needlessly, and gratuitously progressive.… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“I do not admit that theological points are small points. Theology is only thought applied to religion; and those who prefer a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he's realised exactly how much right… — G.K. Chesterton Criminals Copy Share Image
“The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he… — G.K. Chesterton Lawlessness Copy Share Image
“It's bad enough that a gang of infernal Jews should plant us here, where there's no earthly English interest to serve, and… — G.K. Chesterton Judaism Copy Share Image
“but for me all good things come to a point, swords for instance.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Flippancy is a flower whose roots are often underground in the subconsciousness.” — G.K. Chesterton Flower Copy Share Image
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” — G.K. Chesterton Fish Copy Share Image
“The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.” — G.K. Chesterton Aristocracy Copy Share Image
