G K Chesterton

G K Chesterton: Education is the...

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...

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G K Chesterton: The world will...

G K Chesterton: The world will...

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

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G K Chesterton: Half a truth...

G K Chesterton: Half a truth...

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Source: All Things Considered, The Boy ...

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G K Chesterton: I rose politely...

G K Chesterton: I rose politely...

I rose politely in the club
And said, `I feel a little bored;
Will someone take me to a...

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G K Chesterton: The strangest whim...

G K Chesterton: The strangest whim...

The strangest whim has seized me
. . . After all
I think I will not hang myself...

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G K Chesterton: But there is...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: Poets do not...

G K Chesterton: Poets do not...

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

Source: 'Orthodoxy'
-- G K...

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G K Chesterton: We call a...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: The wine they...

G K Chesterton: The wine they...

The wine they drink in Paradise
They make in Haute Lorraine.


Source: A Cider...

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G K Chesterton: Among the Very...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: Is ditchwater dull?...

G K Chesterton: Is ditchwater dull?...

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet...

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G K Chesterton: A turkey is...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: There are many...

G K Chesterton: There are many...

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does...

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G K Chesterton: True contentment is...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: And we were...

G K Chesterton: And we were...

And we were angry and poor and happy,
And proud of seeing our names in print.


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G K Chesterton: The road from...

G K Chesterton: The road from...

The road from heaven to Hereford
Where the apple wood of Hereford
Goes all the way to...

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G K Chesterton: Cruelty is, perhaps,...

G K Chesterton: Cruelty is, perhaps,...

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of...

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G K Chesterton: Man seems to...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: The greenhorn is...

G K Chesterton: The greenhorn is...

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of...

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G K Chesterton: A great deal...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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