Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

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I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.

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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

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Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

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There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

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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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[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

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You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes.

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It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

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Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

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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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The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

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Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.

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A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

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There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

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