Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

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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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She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

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What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.

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People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life.

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Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

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Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

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Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

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It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

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

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The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

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The word good has many meanings.

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There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied.

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