549 Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

Man is a free knight that might betray his Lord.

In Catholicism, the Pint, the Pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

The last lingering shadow of the Jesuit, gliding behind curtains and concealing himself in cupboards, faded from my young life about the time when I first caught a distant glimpse of the late Father Bernard Vaughan. He was the only Jesuit I ever knew in those days; and as you could generally hear him half a mile away, he seemed to be ill-selected for the duties of a curtain-glider.

Without the family, we are helpless before the State.

He felt strange and vivid value in all the earth around him, in the grass under his feet; he felt the love of life in all living things.

The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.

He defended respectability with violence and exaggeration.

Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.