Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

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All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

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They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

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If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

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Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

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It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

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The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.

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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

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Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

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Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

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Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

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Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

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