Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

'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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The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

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

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I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

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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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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

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In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

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We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

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If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

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Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

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Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

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A yawn is a silent shout.

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The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

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Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.

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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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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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