Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

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'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

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Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour, and can be a very powerful and pleasing colour.... A grey clouded sky is indeed a canopy between us and the sun; so is a green tree, if it comes to that. But the grey umbrellas differ as much as the green in their style and shape, in their tint and tilt. One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like dove’s plumage. One may seem grey like the deathly frost, and another grey like the smoke of substantial kitchens.

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Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

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A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

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Progress is the mother of all problems.

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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

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It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

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There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

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Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

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The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

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