Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

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It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

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A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.

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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

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Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

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The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

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Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

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The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

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Humility is the mother of giants.

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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

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Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

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The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

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