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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
It is vain for Mr. McCabe to say that a ballet is a part of him. He should be part of a ballet, or else he is only part of a man.
— G.K. Chesterton
He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
— G.K. Chesterton
Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.
— G.K. Chesterton
Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think
— G.K. Chesterton
It is the supreme proof of a man being prosaic that he always insists on poetry being poetical.
— G.K. Chesterton
Now when a man is as right as that in his forecasts, there is some reason to think he may be right in his premises.
— Frank Sheed
As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
— G.K. Chesterton
What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.
— G.K. Chesterton
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.
— G.K. Chesterton
the tear of the oyster is a pearl.
— G.K. Chesterton
He sometimes felt himself to be a painfully prosaic person, but by the same token he knew he was incurably sane.
— G.K. Chesterton
There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
— G.K. Chesterton
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
— G.K. Chesterton
There is only one thing that that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
— G.K. Chesterton
A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud.
— 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
Hang it all! what is a man ashamed of nowadays?
— G.K. Chesterton
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.
— G.K. Chesterton
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
— 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
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
— G.K. Chesterton
No man is such a legalist as the good Secularist.
— G.K. Chesterton
A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
— G.K. Chesterton
Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.
— G.K. Chesterton
What is the good of begetting a man until we have settled what is the good of being a man?
— G.K. Chesterton
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller
— G.K. Chesterton
The world will never be safe for democracy - it is a dangerous trade
— G.K. Chesterton
I've known a good many magicians myself in India - mango plant and all. But the Indian ones are all frauds, I'll swear.
— 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
Being a believer may be, if you like, as bad as being drunk;
— G.K. Chesterton
When will people understand that it is useless for a man to read his Bible unless he also reads everybody else's Bible?
— G.K. Chesterton
Then I realized that for eighteen hundred years the Church Militant had not been a pageant, but a riot - and a suppressed riot. There,
— G.K. Chesterton
He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.
— G.K. Chesterton
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities ... it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
— 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
It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
— G.K. Chesterton
I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
— G.K. Chesterton
For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.
— G.K. Chesterton
For a large lemon moon was only just setting in the forest of high grass above their heads,
— G.K. Chesterton
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
— G.K. Chesterton
Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead.
— G.K. Chesterton
But the new rebel is a sceptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And
— G.K. Chesterton
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
— G.K. Chesterton
Pragmatism is a matter of human needs; and one of the first of human needs is to be something more than a pragmatist.
— G.K. Chesterton
I have a suspicion that you are all mad,' said Dr. Renard, smiling sociably; 'but God forbid that madness should in any way interrupt friendship.
— G.K. Chesterton
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
— G.K. Chesterton
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
— 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
We are learning to do a great many clever things ... The next great task will be to learn not to do them.
— G.K. Chesterton
The fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.
— G.K. Chesterton
The greatest influence in writing was G. K. Chesterton who never used a useless word, who saw the value of a paradox, and avoided what was trite.
— Fulton J. Sheen
A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
— G.K. Chesterton
The hardest thing to remember about our time, of course, is simply that it is a time- we all instinctively think of it as the Day of Judgment.
— 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
Softly sang as I drifted into dreams: F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y and Z A,
— Ian Hutton
There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.
— 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
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
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
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
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.
— 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
Progress is a metaphor from merely walking along a road - very likely the wrong road.
— G.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
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
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
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
— 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
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
— 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
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
— G.K. Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
— G.K. Chesterton
Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil?
— G.K. Chesterton
A man with no sword can never be beaten in swordmanship.
— G.K. Chesterton
We are in the presence of a thousand lies all pointing with their fantastic fingers to one undiscovered truth.
— G.K. Chesterton
In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.
— G.K. Chesterton
Men are men, but Man is a woman.
— G.K. Chesterton
A stone is helpless, because a stone is hard. The stone must by its own nature go downwards, because hardness is weakness.
— G.K. Chesterton
The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.
As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world. — G.K. Chesterton
But if you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
— 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
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
Tolerance is the last virtue of a man without principle.
— G.K. Chesterton