Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

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The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

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Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--

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A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

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

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Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

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There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

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Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

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There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.

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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

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With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

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

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