Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

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I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

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It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.

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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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For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

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What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

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A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

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I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

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The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong

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Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

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The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

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The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

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For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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