Laughter and Humility (GK-CHESTERTON.ORG)

Quotes by and posts relating to one of the most influential authors of the 20th century, G.K. Chesterton

Friday, November 28, 2025

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We are constantly reminded, especially by those stunted sceptics who seem never to get beyond one step in thought, that many of the popular ...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

New BBC series including Chesterton as a character

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From the latest "Gilbert" magazine (November/December 2025), an interesting bit of news: BBC Television has announced plans to ma...
Friday, July 25, 2025

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 "I want to pay tribute...to G.K. Chesterton, whose paradoxical and savory wisdom was a knighthood of God." -Jacques Maritain...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Trinity Sunday

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If there is one question which the enlightened and liberal have the habit of deriding and holding up as a dreadful example of barren dogma a...
Friday, May 23, 2025

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It seems nowadays to be counted a prodigy that the truisms can come true. The discovery that a new notion is nonsense is itself treated as a...
Monday, April 28, 2025

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Satan rebuking sin is a mild figure of speech for the enormous notion of a politician denouncing deceptions. -December 22, 1906, Illustrate...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

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Science and mathematics writer Martin Gardner was a noted Chestertonian, and reprinted about one-third of the chapter "The Ethics of El...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

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[Modern] social reform is something much worse than giving all wealth to the Government. It is rather giving all government to the wealthy. ...
Friday, April 25, 2025

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If optimism means a general approval, it is certainly true that the more a man becomes an optimist the more he becomes a melancholy man. If ...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

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The great strength of Christian sanctity has always been simply this - that the worst enemies of the saints could not say of the saints anyt...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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The truth is that our public life consists almost exclusively of small men. Our public men are small because they have to prove that they ar...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

"We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not understand."

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When I was in America I had the feeling that it was far more foreign than France or even than Ireland. And by foreign I mean fascinating rat...
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