Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

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The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

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Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

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The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect.

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I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

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But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.

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All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

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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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The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

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You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes.

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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

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The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

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Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

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Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

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Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

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Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

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When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

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