Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

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It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

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Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

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The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong

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The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

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The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

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One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

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Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

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I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

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When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.

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For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.

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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

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Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

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The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.

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