Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

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Surprise is the secret of joy.

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.

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In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.

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Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

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A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

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For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.

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How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

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No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

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Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

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Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.

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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

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

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Only poor men get hanged.

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