Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

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Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

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There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

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The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.

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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

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I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

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The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

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The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

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Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

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As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

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The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

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The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.

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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.

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