Gilbert K. Chesterton
Quotations
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“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The only defensible war is a war of defense.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Half a truth is better than no politics.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
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