Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

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Plato was right, but not quite right.

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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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Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

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Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

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Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.

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By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

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We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

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You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

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For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

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

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Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.

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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

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It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!

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Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

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