Gilbert K. Chesterton Roman Quotations

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.