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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
— G.K. Chesterton
Fairy Tales give you more than just smile. They give you Hope.
Hope that at the end true love conquers all odds and slays every dragon. — Ameya Agrawal
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I might point out that the rich do not so much buy honesty as curtains to cover dishonesty.
— G.K. Chesterton
He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
— G.K. Chesterton
You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
— G.K. Chesterton
There is only one thing that that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
— G.K. Chesterton
I am the man who knows too much to know anything, or, at any rate, to do anything,
— G.K. Chesterton
There was a man who had a fly in his eye when he looked through the telescope, and he discovered that there was a most incredible dragon in the moon.
— G.K. Chesterton
Always be comic in a tragedy
— G.K. Chesterton
The blank page is God's way of letting us know how hard it is to be God.
— G.K. Chesterton
A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
— G.K. Chesterton
Father Brown: ... one can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place
— G.K. Chesterton
It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.
— G.K. Chesterton
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
— G.K. Chesterton
Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo gooGoo-goo goo-goo goo-goo
Googly, googly, googly goo:
That's how we fill a column. — G.K. Chesterton
We have eternity to stretch our legs in.
— G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else.
— Dale Ahlquist
We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
No man who worships education has got the best out of education ... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
— G.K. Chesterton
I prefer to call it reform. For reform implies form.
— G.K. Chesterton
It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The ignorant pronounce it FroodTo cavil or applaud
The well-informed pronounce it Froyd
But I pronounce it Fraud. — G.K. Chesterton
The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.
— G.K. Chesterton
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Satan fell by the force of gravity.
— G.K. Chesterton
If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language; one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it.
— G.K. Chesterton
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
— G.K. Chesterton
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.
— G.K. Chesterton
In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.
— G.K. Chesterton
And he set to rhyme his ale-measures,And he sang aloud his laws,
Because of the joy of giants,
The joy without a cause. — G.K. Chesterton
An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
— G.K. Chesterton
Life (according to the faith) is very like a serial story in a magazine: life ends with the promise (or menace) "to be continued in our next.
— G.K. Chesterton
Of the last two friends of yours who had the modern mind; one thought it wrong to eat fishes and the other thought it right to eat men ...
— G.K. Chesterton
Progress is the mother of all problems.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A radical does not mean
— G.K. Chesterton
The moderns do not realize modernity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
tradition is truer than fashion.
— G.K. Chesterton
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. — G.K. Chesterton
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
— G.K. Chesterton
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
— G.K. Chesterton
Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
— G.K. Chesterton
One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Take away the supernatural, and what remains is the unnatural.
— G.K. Chesterton
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. G. K. Chesterton
— Leslie Parrott
Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
— G.K. Chesterton
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.
— G.K. Chesterton
As G. K. Chesterton wrote, "How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it."22
— Ann Voskamp
This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.
— G.K. Chesterton
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed
— G.K. Chesterton
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
— G.K. Chesterton
Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
— G.K. Chesterton
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish. — G.K. Chesterton
Fairy tales are more than true ...
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead.
— G.K. Chesterton
When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
— G.K. Chesterton
For a large lemon moon was only just setting in the forest of high grass above their heads,
— G.K. Chesterton
A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
— G.K. Chesterton
Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years.
— G.K. Chesterton
Men are men, but Man is a woman.
— G.K. Chesterton
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
— G.K. Chesterton
Paganism declared that virtue was in a balance; Christianity declared it was in a conflict: the collision of two passions apparently opposite. Of
— G.K. Chesterton
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Tolerance is the last virtue of a man without principle.
— G.K. Chesterton
The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God.
— G.K. Chesterton
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Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.
— G.K. Chesterton
Nobody has any business to use the word "progress" unless he has a definite creed and a cast-iron code of morals.
— G.K. Chesterton
Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
— G.K. Chesterton
The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
In their doubt of miracles there was a faith in a fixed and godless fate; a deep and sincere faith in the incurable routine of the cosmos.
— G.K. Chesterton
Is there anyone ... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton