Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Half a truth is better than no politics.

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When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

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Adventure is the champagne of life.

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There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

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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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Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

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When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.

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Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

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Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

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Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

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Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

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Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

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The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

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We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

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Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

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The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

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