Quotes from GK Chesterton
Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.
- GK Chesterton
Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.
- GK Chesterton
There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth.
- GK Chesterton
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
- GK Chesterton
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
- GK Chesterton
It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
- GK Chesterton
Art is the signature of man.
- GK Chesterton
Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
- GK Chesterton
When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything.
- GK Chesterton
Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
- GK Chesterton
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
- GK Chesterton
Progress is the mother of all problems.
- GK Chesterton