Quotes About Chesterton

Such notions thrived as eugenic purity was espoused by Chesterton and Hilaire

In reading Chesterton I was undermining my own most dearly held prejudices.

Chesterton believed in a matriarchy where the woman was at the center of the family and the family was at the center of society and, in rebelling against this matriarchy, women, he was convinced, would lose far more than they could possibly gain.

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex.

success as an apologist: Étienne Gilson called Orthodoxy 'the best piece of apologetic the century [has] produced'; it brought Dorothy L. Sayers back to Christianity, just as The Everlasting Man brought C. S. Lewis to his famous moment of conversion on Headington Hill. Much remains to be done before Chesterton's huge oeuvre can be adequately assessed as a major part of the cultural history of the last century.

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

For nonsense, as Chesterton liked to tell us, is a way of looking at existence that is akin to religious humility and wonder.

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

One time G.K. Chesterton, the rolypologist, was patted on the stomach by his adversary, George Bernard Shaw, a beanpole of an infidel, and was asked what they were going to name the baby. Chesterton replied immediately that if it was a boy, John, if a girl, then Mary. But if it turned out to only be gas, they were going to name it George Bernard Shaw.

We can't turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

Ac- cording to Chesterton, tea-drinking' is 'pagan', while beer- drinking is 'Christian', and coffee is 'the puritan's opium'.

As long as matters are really hopeful," wrote Chesterton, "hope is mere flattery or platitude. It is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength at all. Like all the Christian virtues, it is as unreasonable as it is indispensable.

Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

When one of England's finest writers, G. K. Chesterton, spoke of "the furious love of God," he was referencing the enormous vitality and strength of the God of Jesus seeking union with us.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.