Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

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

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When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

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All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

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There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

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

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.

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A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

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To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

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It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them

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Adventure is the champagne of life.

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Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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