Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

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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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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

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The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

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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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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

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I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

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All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

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People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

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It is a strange thing that many truly spiritual men, such as General Gordon, have actually spent some hours in speculating upon the precise location of the Garden of Eden. Most probably we are in Eden still. It is only our eyes that have changed.

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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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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

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Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

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Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

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