Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

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There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

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A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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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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In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

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The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

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The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

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Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

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Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

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There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied.

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I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

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We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.

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She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

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Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

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Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

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