Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

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There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

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Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.

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Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.

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

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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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A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

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When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

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All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

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A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

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Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

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The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

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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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Coincidences are spiritual puns.

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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

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children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

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Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

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Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

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