Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

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The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

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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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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

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

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It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

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We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

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Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

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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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Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

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I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

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