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G. K. CHESTERTON QUOTES
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
English critic and author
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin.
G.K. CHESTERTON, All Things Considered
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
G.K. CHESTERTON, Heretics
All architecture is great architecture after sunset.
G.K. CHESTERTON, "The Giant," Tremendous Trifles
- Pride juggles with her toppling towers,
- They strike the sun and cease,
- But the firm feet of humility
- They grip the ground like trees.
G.K. CHESTERTON, The Ballad of the White Horse
Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.
G.K. CHESTERTON, "On the Classics," Selected Essays
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.
G.K. CHESTERTON, All Things Considered
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
G.K. CHESTERTON, Illustrated London News, Apr. 19, 1924
If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.
G.K. CHESTERTON, "A Defence of Baby-Worship"
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
G. K. CHESTERTON, What's Wrong with the World
We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.
G.K. CHESTERTON, Heretics
Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.
G. K. CHESTERTON, What's Wrong with the World
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
G. K. CHESTERTON, Fancies Versus Fads
We have come to the wrong star ... That is what makes life at once so splendid and so strange. The true happiness is that we don't fit. We come from somewhere else. We have lost our way.
G. K. CHESTERTON, Orthodoxy
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