Books Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my…

— G.K. Chesterton

“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the…

— G.K. Chesterton

“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,…

— G.K. Chesterton

“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act…

— G.K. Chesterton