“The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“a man is not really convinced of a philosophic theory when he finds that something proves it. He is only really convinced… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nonsense!' said Gregory, who was very rational when anyone else attempted paradox.” — G.K. Chesterton Paradox Copy Share Image
“We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and… — G.K. Chesterton Brotherhood of man Copy Share Image
“for a large lemon moon was only just setting in the forest of high grass above their heads,” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo goo Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo Googly, googly, googly goo: That’s how we fill a column.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Would you be so obliging as to tell me whose house this is?’ “'Mine,’ said the burglar, 'May I present you to… — G.K. Chesterton Burglar Copy Share Image
“One of the Franciscans says later, "A monk should own nothing but his harp"; meaning, I suppose, that he should value nothing… — G.K. Chesterton Monk Copy Share Image
“Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. The Catholic Church has for one of her… — G.K. Chesterton Failure Copy Share Image
“Admiral Pendragon sat down again as abruptly as he had risen; but he sat quite still, and when he spoke again it… — G.K. Chesterton Atheist Copy Share Image
“If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real;… — G.K. Chesterton Cynicism Copy Share Image
“It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The silly sentimentalists of the French Revolution talked of the Rights of Man! We hate Rights as we hate Wrongs. We have… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchism Copy Share Image
“Brown paper represents the primal twilight of the first toil of creation, and with a bright-coloured chalk or two you can pick… — G.K. Chesterton Creation Copy Share Image
“You don't expect me," he said, "to revolutionize society on this lawn?" Syme looked straight into his eyes and smiled sweetly. "No,… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchy Copy Share Image
“Briefly, then, we dismiss the two opposite dangers of bigotry and fanaticism, bigotry which is a too great vagueness and fanaticism which… — G.K. Chesterton Religion Copy Share Image
“We read a good novel not in order to know more people, but in order to know fewer. Instead of the humming… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“Now the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love it. But the next best is to… — G.K. Chesterton Apologetics Copy Share Image
“No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerness in eating, drinking, or… — G.K. Chesterton Comradeship Copy Share Image
“But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a… — G.K. Chesterton Catholic Copy Share Image
“Have they [the agnostics] produced in their universality anything grander or more beautiful than the things uttered by the fierce Ghibbeline Catholic,… — G.K. Chesterton Agnostics Copy Share Image
“I spare you,” said the Duke in a voice of inhuman pity. “I refuse. If I gave you the faintest hint of… — G.K. Chesterton Devil Copy Share Image
“There has appeared in our time a particular class of books and articles which I sincerely and solemnly think may be called… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“You irritate me sublimely. What can it be in me? Is it the relic of a moral sense?” — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“I am not good at deception,' said Tuesday gloomily, flushing. Right, my boy, right,' said the President with a ponderous heartiness, 'You… — G.K. Chesterton Deception Copy Share Image
“There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is that he certainly will not work.” — G.K. Chesterton Humor Copy Share Image
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“sin -- a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or no man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“To each man one soul only is given; to each soul only is given a little power - the power at some… — G.K. Chesterton Soul Copy Share Image
“he sometimes felt himself to be a painfully prosaic person, but by the same token he knew he was incurably sane.” — G.K. Chesterton Humor Copy Share Image
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“Then he realised (in some odd way) that the silence was rather a living silence than a dead one.” — G.K. Chesterton Silence Copy Share Image
“For even the most dehumanized modern fantasies depend on some older and simpler figure; the adventures may be mad, but the adventurer… — G.K. Chesterton Adventurer Copy Share Image
“I do not object to Socialism because it will revolutionize our commerce, but because it will leave it so horribly the same.” — G.K. Chesterton Business Copy Share Image
“They stoned the false prophets, it is said; but they could have stoned true prophets with a greater and juster enjoyment.” — G.K. Chesterton False prophets Copy Share Image
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“Weak things must boast of being new, like so many new German philosophies. But strong things can boast of being old.” — G.K. Chesterton Strength Copy Share Image
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![“Have they [the agnostics] produced in their universality anything grander or more beautiful than the things uttered by the fierce Ghibbeline Catholic, by the rigid Puritan schoolmaster? We know that they have produced only a few roundels. Milton does not merely beat them at his piety, he beats…” quote by G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b63/g-k-chesterton-224_quote_have-they-the-agnostics-produced-in-thei_633557.jpg)
