Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

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There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

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The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

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You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

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Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

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The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.

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It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

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

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The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing.

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There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.

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It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

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If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

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The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

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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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We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

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People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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