Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

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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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People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

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Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

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It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

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My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

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It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

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What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.

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The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

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There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

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Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

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How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.

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There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

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If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.

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