Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

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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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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

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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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When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.

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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

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The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

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I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

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

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As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.

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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

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Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.

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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

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Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

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