Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

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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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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

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Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

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It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

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We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

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What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

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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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Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

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The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

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Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

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The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

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Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

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The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

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