Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

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Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

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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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Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.

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If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

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There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

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Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

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Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.

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What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.

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Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?

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Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

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The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

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The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

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Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

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