Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

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There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

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And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world.

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The true object of human life is play.

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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. They can't see the problem if they are looking in the wrong place. They can't see the problem if they have blinders on - for 'none are so blind as those that will not see'.

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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

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Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

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What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

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In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.

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It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

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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. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic.

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

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There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

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What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

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

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