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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
The past is not what it was.
— G.K. Chesterton
You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you.
— G.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's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
— G.K. Chesterton
There is only one thing that that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
— G.K. Chesterton
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
— 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
But it's my reading of human nature that a man will cheat in his trade, but not in his hobby.
— G.K. Chesterton
Always be comic in a tragedy
— G.K. Chesterton
No man is such a legalist as the good Secularist.
— 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
German soldiers look as if they despised you, but French soldiers as if they despised you and themselves even more that you.
— 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
Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
— G.K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton: When Man ceases to worship God he does not worship nothing but worships everything.
— Pope Francis
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
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
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
For some extraordinary reason, there is a fixed notion that it is more liberal to disbelieve in miracles than to believe in them.
— G.K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton famously quipped that "those who marry the spirit of the age will find themselves widows in the next.
— Miroslav Volf
My basic rule is if the relative risk isn't at least 3 or 4, forget it.
— Robert K. G. Temple
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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
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
— G.K. Chesterton
The ignorant pronounce it FroodTo cavil or applaud
The well-informed pronounce it Froyd
But I pronounce it Fraud. — G.K. Chesterton
tradition is truer than fashion.
— G.K. Chesterton
We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. What we want is a religion that is right where we are wrong.
— G.K. Chesterton
Nothing which is so weak for working purposes as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.
— G.K. Chesterton
I know that it means very
— G.K. Chesterton
The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
— G.K. Chesterton
All other societies die finally and with dignity. We die daily. We are always being born again with almost indecent obstetrics.
— G.K. Chesterton
I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.
— G.K. Chesterton
Progress is a metaphor from merely walking along a road - very likely the wrong road.
— G.K. Chesterton
Irishmen are best at the specially hard professions - the trades of iron, the lawyer, and the soldier.
— G.K. Chesterton
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
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.
— G.K. Chesterton
What happens when everyone is asleep is called Evolution. What happens when everyone is awake is called Revolution.
— G.K. Chesterton
Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
— G.K. Chesterton
The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.
— P.G. Wodehouse
We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.
— G.K. Chesterton
We're all really dependent in nearly everything, and we all make a fuss about being independent in something.
— G.K. Chesterton
Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.
— G.K. Chesterton
No man knows he is young while he is young.
— 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
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
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
Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
— G.K. Chesterton
Take away the supernatural, and what remains is the unnatural.
— G.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
Tolerance is the last virtue of a man without principle.
— 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
Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish. — G.K. Chesterton
Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead.
— G.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
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 radical does not mean
— 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
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
Men are men, but Man is a woman.
— G.K. Chesterton
I prefer to call it reform. For reform implies form.
— G.K. Chesterton
I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.
— G.K. Chesterton
Satan fell by the force of gravity.
— 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
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
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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
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
