Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.

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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

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The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

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But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.

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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

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People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

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I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.

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The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

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Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

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The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

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In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

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Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

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Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

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