Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

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Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

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Half a truth is better than no politics.

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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

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Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.

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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

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He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.

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Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

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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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

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If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

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Faith means believing the unbelievable.

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Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

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If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

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The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

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