Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Atheism is too theological.

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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

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Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

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We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.

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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

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The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

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Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.

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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

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Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.

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Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

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And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

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

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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

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Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.

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These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

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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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There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

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Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.

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