Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

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Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

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It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

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If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

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Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

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I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

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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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Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

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The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

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In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.

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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

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All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

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The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.

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As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

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The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

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