Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.

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The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

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With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

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I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

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It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

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It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.

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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

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The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.

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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

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When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

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