Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

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When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

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Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

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The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

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Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

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The classes that wash most are those that work least.

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When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.

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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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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

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Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

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The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.

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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

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