Tremendous Trifles: "Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before."G.K. Chesterton
Heretics: "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."G.K. Chesterton
Napolean Of Notting Hill: “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”G.K. Chesterton
The Defendant: "'My country, right or wrong,' us a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'"G.K. Chesterton
The Hole In The Wall And Other Stories: “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”G.K. Chesterton
The Club Of Queer Trades: "There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked."G.K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much: “Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.”GK Chesterton
The Face In The Target And Other Stories: “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”G.K. Chesterton
The Awful Reason Of The Vicars Visit And Other Short Stories: “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”G.K. Chesterton
The Flying Stars And Other Stories: “I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy: "The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."G.K. Chesterton
The Crimes Of England: “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”G.K. Chesterton
A Miscellany Of Men: "Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away."G.K. Chesterton
The Head Of Caesar And Other Stories: “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”G.K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday: "It is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely."G.K. Chesterton
The Trees Of Pride: “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”G.K. Chesterton
The Temple Of Silence & Other Stories: “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”G.K. Chesterton
Twelve Types: “Just going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.”G.K. Chesterton
The Ball and the Cross: A Thought-Provoking Exploration of Faith, Reason, and Philosophical ConflictGilbert Keith Chesterton
The Flying Inn: A Satirical Journey Through Prohibition's Humorous and Thought-Provoking Critique of SocietyGilbert Keith Chesterton
Orthodoxy: Defending Traditional Christian Belief with Engaging Prose and Sharp WitGilbert Keith Chesterton
Poems: Verses of Wit, Wisdom, and Whimsy: A Poetry Collection by a Literary GeniusGilbert Keith Chesterton
The Barbarism of Berlin: Unveiling the Legacy of German Militarism in World War IGilbert Keith Chesterton
The Club of Queer Trades: Eccentric professions, unconventional mysteries, and witty resolutions in Victorian LondonGilbert Keith Chesterton