A blog dedicated to providing quotes by and posts relating to one of the most influential (and quotable!) authors of the twentieth century, G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936). If you do not know much about GKC, I suggest visiting the webpage of the American Chesterton Society as well as this wonderful Chesterton Facebook Page by a fellow Chestertonian

I also have created a list detailing examples of the influence of Chesterton if you are interested, that I work on from time to time.

(Moreover, for a list of short GKC quotes, I have created one here, citing the sources)

"...Stevenson had found that the secret of life lies in laughter and humility."

-Heretics (1905)
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Thursday, April 15, 2021

[B]ecause our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
-June 6, 1931, Illustrated London News
[H/T Society of G.K. Chesterton]
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Sunday, April 11, 2021

Illustrated London News, January 14, 1911 

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Saturday, April 10, 2021

The ordinary opinion of a vast number of poor, hard-working men on any matter concerning their own lives would be the most valuable opinion which it would be humanly possible to get on that subject, but the difficulty is to get that opinion. The men are too hard-working to be politicians, too poor to exercise power, so the democracy is run according to the pretensions of the educated who are incapable of seeing things as they are and follow the intellectual fads of the moment."
(Reported in the Montreal Gazette, Feb. 17, 1921)
(H/T Society of G.K. Chesterton)
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