“The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times.” — G.K. Chesterton Church Copy Share Image
“For in the average human house there is one hole by which money comes in and a hundred by which it goes… — G.K. Chesterton Money Copy Share Image
“The most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing--such as making love.” — G.K. Chesterton Comedy Copy Share Image
“The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of… — G.K. Chesterton Independent thinking Copy Share Image
“Men represent the deliberative and democratic element in life. Woman represents the despotic.” — G.K. Chesterton Feminism Copy Share Image
“Adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“The poetic does not misrepresent the speech one half so much as the speech misrepresents the soul.” — G.K. Chesterton Communication Copy Share Image
“These men were conscious of the Fall, if they were conscious of nothing else; and the same is true of all heathen… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“First, it must be realized that liveliness in the preacher does not mean liveliness in the congregation. On the contrary, the extreme… — G.K. Chesterton Preacher Copy Share Image
“Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. Even the fastidious and unhappy who cannot read his books without a… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“Look at the eyebrows. They mean that infernal pride which made Satan so proud that he sneered even at heaven when he… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In truth it is inequality that is the illusion. The extreme disproportion between men, that we seem to see in life, is… — G.K. Chesterton Illusion Copy Share Image
“I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of… — G.K. Chesterton Success Copy Share Image
“A martyr is a man who cares so much for something outside him, that he forgets his own personal life. A suicide… — G.K. Chesterton Martyr Copy Share Image
“If you want to succeed at whist, either be a good whist-player, or play with marked cards. You may want a book… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just because he can… — G.K. Chesterton Goodness Copy Share Image
“We will have no generalizations. Mr. Bernard Shaw has put the view in a perfect epigram: "The golden rule is that there… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In most cases the name is unpoetical, although the fact is poetical. In the case of Smith, the name is so poetical… — G.K. Chesterton Nature Copy Share Image
“One could not imagine a process more open to the elephantine logic of the Bible-smasher than this: that the sun should be created… — G.K. Chesterton Creation Copy Share Image
“America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchism Copy Share Image
“It is always simple to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The Last Hero The wind blew out from Bergen from the dawning to the day, There was a wreck of trees and… — G.K. Chesterton Hero Copy Share Image
“Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not quite coward enough to admire it.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed: a passage which some have considered as a prophecy of modern… — G.K. Chesterton Prophecy Copy Share Image
“My best friends are all either bottomless skeptics or quite uncontrollable believers . . . .” — G.K. Chesterton Best friend Copy Share Image
“Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief,… — G.K. Chesterton Modern literature Copy Share Image
“I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy, like a bird in spring.” — G.K. Chesterton Wrong place Copy Share Image
“A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread… — G.K. Chesterton Dirty water Copy Share Image
“Here dies another day During which I have had eyes, ears, hands And the great world round me; And with tomorrow begins… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is incomprehensible to me that any thinker can calmly call himself a modernist; he might as well call himself a Thursdayite.” — G.K. Chesterton Modernist Copy Share Image
“I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind… — G.K. Chesterton Poetry Copy Share Image
“My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it… — G.K. Chesterton Brain Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.” — G.K. Chesterton Book Copy Share Image
“Inside I am really bursting with boyish merriment; but I acted the paralytic Professor so well, that now I can't leave off.” — G.K. Chesterton Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
“He spoke in that sweet and steely voice which he reserved for great occasions and practiced for hours together in his bedroom.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerness in eating and drinking.” — G.K. Chesterton Comradeship Copy Share Image
