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G K Chesterton
Education is the...
Education is the period during which I was being instructed by somebody I did not know, about something I did not want...
The world will...
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
Half a truth...
Half a truth is better than no politics.
Source: All Things Considered, The Boy ...
I rose politely...
I rose politely in the club
And said, `I feel a little bored;
Will someone take me to a...
The strangest whim...
The strangest whim has seized me
. . . After all
I think I will not hang myself...
But there is...
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen
Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal...
Poets do not...
Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
Source: 'Orthodoxy'
-- G K...
We call a...
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite...
The wine they...
The wine they drink in Paradise
They make in Haute Lorraine.
Source: A Cider...
Among the Very...
Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but...
Is ditchwater dull?...
Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet...
A turkey is...
A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an...
There are many...
There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does...
True contentment is...
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there...
And we were...
And we were angry and poor and happy,
And proud of seeing our names in print.
The road from...
The road from heaven to Hereford
Where the apple wood of Hereford
Goes all the way to...
Cruelty is, perhaps,...
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of...
Man seems to...
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping...
The greenhorn is...
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of...
A great deal...
A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: `Of course I do not like green cheese: I am very...