Quotes by : G.K. Chesterton

His soul swayed in a vertigo of moral indecision. He had only to snap the thread of a rash vow made to....

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the....

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first....

As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No....

...It expands; it only destroys because it broadens; even so, thought only destroys because it broadens.....

Brown paper represents the primal twilight of the first toil of creation, and with a bright-coloured....

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely....

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of....

A real problem only occurs when there are admittedly disadvantages in all courses that can be pursued.....