G K Chesterton

G K Chesterton: The human race,...

G K Chesterton: The human race,...

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong.

Source: The Napoleon of...

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G K Chesterton: The ordinary scientific...

G K Chesterton: The ordinary scientific...

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is...

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G K Chesterton: Lying in bed...

G K Chesterton: Lying in bed...

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to...

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G K Chesterton: The rolling English...

G K Chesterton: The rolling English...

The rolling English drunkard made the rolling
English road.
A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles...

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G K Chesterton: Thieves respect property....

G K Chesterton: Thieves respect property....

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect...

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G K Chesterton: Individually, men may...

G K Chesterton: Individually, men may...

Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping and scheming. But humanity as a...

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G K Chesterton: The madman is...

G K Chesterton: The madman is...

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his...

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G K Chesterton: Once I planned...

G K Chesterton: Once I planned...

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and...

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G K Chesterton: They have given...

G K Chesterton: They have given...

They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords,
Lords without anger and honour, who dare not carry their...

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G K Chesterton: For the great...

G K Chesterton: For the great...

For the great Gaels of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry,
And all their...

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G K Chesterton: Education is simply...

G K Chesterton: Education is simply...

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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G K Chesterton: He could not...

G K Chesterton: He could not...

He could not think up to the height of his own towering style.

Source: Speaking of...

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G K Chesterton: The chief assertion...

G K Chesterton: The chief assertion...

The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a colour. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the...

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G K Chesterton: Tea, although an...

G K Chesterton: Tea, although an...

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

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G K Chesterton: A stiff apology...

G K Chesterton: A stiff apology...

A stiff apology is a second insult. . . . The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been...

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G K Chesterton: Before the Roman...

G K Chesterton: Before the Roman...

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English...

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G K Chesterton: I tell you...

G K Chesterton: I tell you...

I tell you naught for your comfort,
Yea, naught for your desire,
Save that the sky grows darker yet
And the...

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G K Chesterton: White. . ....

G K Chesterton: White. . ....

White. . . is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as...

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G K Chesterton: No one can...

G K Chesterton: No one can...

No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and...

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G K Chesterton: Fools! For I...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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