Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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

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Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

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ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels.

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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

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Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

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The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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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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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

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It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.

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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

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