Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

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Passion makes every detail important.

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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

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

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Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

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humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

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People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

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La mejor prueba de la cultura y la liberalidad de un hombre es su actitud ante las cosas que nunca sucedieron.

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"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

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If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.

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Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

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I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

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Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

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Silence is the unbearable repartee.

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