Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

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Half a truth is better than no politics.

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I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

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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.

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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

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Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

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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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The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

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The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

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St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

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Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

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If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

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