Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

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Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.

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If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.

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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

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How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.

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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

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The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old human life dancing like children and drinking wine like men; for Christianity is the only frame for pagan freedom. But in the modern philosophy the case is opposite; it is its outer ring that is obviously artistic and emancipated; its despair is within.

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The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

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But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

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A yawn is a silent shout.

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There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.

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Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

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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 issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

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