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G K Chesterton
All good men...
All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be...
Talk about the...
Talk about the pews and steeples
And the cash that goes therewith!
But the souls of Christian peoples . ....
Happiness is a...
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.
Source:...
The modern world...
The modern world . . . has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly...
It is not...
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. . . . Why do we laugh? Because...
An adventure is...
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly...
How beautiful it...
How beautiful it would be for someone who could not read.
Source: Attributed.
--...
A man's opinion...
A man's opinion on tramcars matters; his opinion on Botticelli matters; his opinion on all things does not...
The old idea...
The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that...
The vulgar man...
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is...
Journalism is popular,...
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers...
The aim of...
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of...
A woman uses...
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Source: In...
I want to...
I want to reassure you I am not this size, really - dear me no, I'm being amplified by the...
Soldiers have many...
Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than...
Boyhood is a...
Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what...
A cosmic philosophy...
A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no...
Architecture is the...
Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of...
New roads: new...
New roads: new ruts.
Source: Attrib.
-- G K Chesterton, (May 29 1874-1936),...
The paradox of...
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep...