“Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal; the shock of beauty is when the irresistible force hits the immovable post.” — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“We have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule; rather we must crown the much more exceptional man… — G.K. Chesterton Crown Copy Share Image
“I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come! wait and see me betray myself. I shall do it so… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There is a certain solid use in fools. It is not so much that they rush in where angels fear to tread,… — G.K. Chesterton Foolishness Copy Share Image
Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.” — G.K. Chesterton Comedy Copy Share Image
“The big commercial concerns of to-day are quite exceptionally incompetent. They will be even more incompetent when they are omnipotent.” — G.K. Chesterton Incompetent Copy Share Image
“I am sure that if triangles ever were loved, they were loved for being triangular.” — G.K. Chesterton Triangles Copy Share Image
“A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. The First Effect I should say the first effect of the triumph of the… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it… — G.K. Chesterton Inspirational Copy Share Image
“To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract… — G.K. Chesterton Citizen Copy Share Image
“The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen. …there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people on… — G.K. Chesterton Life Copy Share Image
“Another is the paradox of charity or chivalry that the weaker a thing is the more it should be respected, that the… — G.K. Chesterton Generosity Copy Share Image
“White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as… — G.K. Chesterton Color Copy Share Image
“We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are… — G.K. Chesterton Doubt Copy Share Image
“The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. He cares as… — G.K. Chesterton Free thinker Copy Share Image
“There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are… — G.K. Chesterton Home Copy Share Image
“When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its cornerstone neither the brilliant Paul nor the… — G.K. Chesterton Christian church Copy Share Image
“It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made… — G.K. Chesterton Journalism Copy Share Image
“Estates are sometimes held by foolish forms, the breaking of a stick or the payment of a peppercorn. I was willing to… — G.K. Chesterton Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the… — G.K. Chesterton Christian church Copy Share Image
“You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchists Copy Share Image
“I have my doubts about all this real value in mountaineering, in getting to the top of everything and overlooking everything. Satan… — G.K. Chesterton Real value Copy Share Image
“Very occasionally, very vaguely, English schoolboys are told not to tell lies, which is a totally different thing. I may silently support… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If no apple has ever been shot off a boy's head from the beginning of the world, it may be done tomorrow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as because it cannot recover the normal.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.” — G.K. Chesterton Catholic Copy Share Image
“Man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.” — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. The mere minimum of the Church would… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.” — G.K. Chesterton Conflict Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.” — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“Se a servidão é melhor que a liberdade, isso é uma questão a ser discutida. Mas que a servidão dos antigos fez… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.” — G.K. Chesterton Atheist Copy Share Image
“As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.” — G.K. Chesterton Comparative Copy Share Image
“why, nobody’s ever survived it! Look at all the people married since Adam and Eve—and all as dead as mutton.” — G.K. Chesterton Adam and eve Copy Share Image
“There is only one good thing science ever discovered—a good thing, good tidings of great joy— that the world is round.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“All men are tragic...All men are comic...Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.” — G.K. Chesterton Grief Copy Share Image
“What a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
