G K Chesterton

G K Chesterton: All good men...

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...

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G K Chesterton: Talk about the...

G K Chesterton: Talk about the...

Talk about the pews and steeples
And the cash that goes therewith!
But the souls of Christian peoples . ....

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G K Chesterton: Happiness is a...

G K Chesterton: Happiness is a...

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.

Source:...

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G K Chesterton: The modern world...

G K Chesterton: The modern world...

The modern world . . . has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly...

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G K Chesterton: It is not...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: An adventure is...

G K Chesterton: An adventure is...

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly...

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G K Chesterton: How beautiful it...

G K Chesterton: How beautiful it...

How beautiful it would be for someone who could not read.

Source: Attributed.
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G K Chesterton: A man's opinion...

G K Chesterton: A man's opinion...

A man's opinion on tramcars matters; his opinion on Botticelli matters; his opinion on all things does not...

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G K Chesterton: The old idea...

G K Chesterton: 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The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that...

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G K Chesterton: The vulgar man...

G K Chesterton: The vulgar man...

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is...

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G K Chesterton: Journalism is popular,...

G K Chesterton: Journalism is popular,...

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers...

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G K Chesterton: The aim of...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: A woman uses...

G K Chesterton: A woman uses...

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Source: In...

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G K Chesterton: I want to...

G K Chesterton: I want to...

I want to reassure you I am not this size, really - dear me no, I'm being amplified by the...

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G K Chesterton: Soldiers have many...

G K Chesterton: Soldiers have many...

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than...

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G K Chesterton: Boyhood is a...

G K Chesterton: Boyhood is a...

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what...

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G K Chesterton: A cosmic philosophy...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: Architecture is the...

G K Chesterton: Architecture is the...

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of...

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G K Chesterton: New roads: new...

G K Chesterton: New roads: new...

New roads: new ruts.

Source: Attrib.
-- G K Chesterton, (May 29 1874-1936),...

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G K Chesterton: The paradox of...

G K Chesterton: The paradox of...

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep...

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