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G K Chesterton
Education is simply...
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
He could not...
He could not think up to the height of his own towering style.
Source: Speaking of...
The chief assertion...
The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a colour. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the...
Tea, although an...
Tea, although an Oriental,
Is a gentleman at least;
Cocoa is a cad and coward,
Cocoa is a vulgar...
A stiff apology...
A stiff apology is a second insult. . . . The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been...
Before the Roman...
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English...
I tell you...
I tell you naught for your comfort,
Yea, naught for your desire,
Save that the sky grows darker yet
And the...
White. . ....
White. . . is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as...
No one can...
No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and...
Fools! For I...
Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour and sweet;
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms...
He crams with...
He crams with cans of poisoned meat
The subjects of the King,
And when they die by thousands
Why, he laughs...
They haven't got...
They haven't got no noses
The fallen sons of Eve;
Even the smell of roses
Is not what they supposes;
But...
A building is...
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a...
All architecture is...
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of...
The rich are...
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
Source: The Flying Inn.
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Your next-door neighbour....
Your next-door neighbour. . . is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a...
To be clever...
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
You can never...
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a...
The only way...
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
Where does a...
Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the...