Chesterton Quotes
Chesterton Quote of the day
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.
Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong
The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock
It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law
If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly
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.
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right
What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles
Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to.
It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos
{We} have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule
Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one
We are in this fairyland on sufferance
We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals
The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past
Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again
Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules
The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction