Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.

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Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.

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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

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The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.

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Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

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Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

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I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

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They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

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I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

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There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

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Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

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THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly.

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