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....

Modern art has to be what is called ‘intense.’ it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly....

The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past and that even a revolutionary seeks....

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly....

I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that while they are always talking of things as....

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

Of real sensational journalism, as it exists in France, in Ireland, and in America, we have no trace....

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered....

We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders.

An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution....