Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

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Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

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For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.

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There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

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We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.

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The past is not what it was.

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To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

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All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

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The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

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Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.

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And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

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Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.

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It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

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