Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

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If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

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There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.

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The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

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The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

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Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.

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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

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The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

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The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

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If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

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The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.

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The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.

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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.

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