Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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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There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

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Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

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If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

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Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

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Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

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One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

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We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

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I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

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

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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.

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Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

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The past is not what it was.

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We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

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I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

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I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

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A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

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