Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Men Quotes, Age Quotes

We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

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Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.

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Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

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Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

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For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

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A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.

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Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

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Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

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Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

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What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.

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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

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Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.

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Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

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No man can lead mean, we have to have unity.

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Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

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A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

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