Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

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Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.

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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

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A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

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Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

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Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

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Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

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Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

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If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says the Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something which is not so much false as startling and arrestingly foolish. He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings.

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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

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The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

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He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

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The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

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There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

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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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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

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In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

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