Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

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It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

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It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to invent a new kind of worship of Sex, which is not even a worship of Life. It has been left to the very latest Modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility . . . The new priests abolish the fatherhood and keep the feast - to themselves.

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The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

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The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

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There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

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Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

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Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

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Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

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My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

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Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

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It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

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