Chesterton Orthodoxy Quotes

#1. Communists disavow the existence of God and religion. They hate it, because it's a competitor.

Rush Limbaugh

#2. Amory: I love you.
Rosalind: I love you- now.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl ... an aria of fear made audible.
The wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering.

Angela Carter

#4. Predict the inevitable", she said, "and you're bound to be right one day.

Hugh Howey

#5. There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#6. Meanwhile, Will had begun cutting his toast into strips and was making rude pictographs out of them.
Oh, that looks rather like a ... - , Jem began.

Cassandra Clare

#7. I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. A small circle is quite as infinite as a large circle; but, though it is quite as infinite, it is not so large.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. Why do people build houses to keep the climate out, then cut holes in the walls to let it in again? I shall never understand.

Kyril Bonfiglioli

#11. There is no hell; there is no heaven. In your mind, they are your own creation.

Debasish Mridha

#12. An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.

G.K. Chesterton

#13. There is only one thing that can never go past a certain point in its alliance with oppression
and that is orthodoxy. I may, it is true, twist orthodoxy so as partly to justify a tyrant. But I can easily make up a German philosophy to justify him entirely.

G.K. Chesterton

#14. So it does not matter (comparatively speaking) how often humanity fails to imitate its ideal; for then all its old failures are fruitful. But it does frightfully matter how often humanity changes its ideal; for then all its old failures are fruitless.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. Let beliefs fade fast and frequently, if you wish institutions to remain the same. The more the life of the mind is unhinged, the more the machinery of matter will be left to itself.

G.K. Chesterton

#16. Being honest with the public is how they respect you.

Angel Haze

#17. What the hell is an oboe?

Oscar Wilde

#18. Is it possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening "Do it again" to the moon." from Orthodoxy.

G.K. Chesterton

#19. Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

G.K. Chesterton

#20. The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly.

Louie Schwartzberg

#21. Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." Power

Saul D. Alinsky

#22. Clair smiled, "I don't sing, and besides, shower singing is meant only for the person taking the shower."
Alex walked into the bathroom and stood beside the tub. "So does that mean if I were to join you, you'd sing to me?"
"Maybe," she grinned.

Loni Flowers

#23. He who wills to reject nothing, wills the destruction of will; for will is not only the choice of something, but the rejection of almost everything.

G.K. Chesterton

#24. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason ...

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#25. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#26. That was before I had my coffee. I'm not responsible for any information delivered pre-caffeine.

Irene Hannon

#27. Alamut could be reached only astride eagles.

Umberto Eco

#28. They do not destroy orthodoxy; they only destroy political courage and common sense.

G.K. Chesterton

#29. The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong.

G.K. Chesterton

#30. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

G.K. Chesterton