Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.

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There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

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Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

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When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is) has these vices much more. The Church has been cruel; but the world has been much more cruel. The Church has plotted; but the world has plotted much more. The Church has been superstitious; but it has never been so superstitious as the world is when left to itself.

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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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Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

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Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

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To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

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Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

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Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

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When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

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Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

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Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

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I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

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