G K Chesterton

G K Chesterton: Merrily taking twopenny...

G K Chesterton: Merrily taking twopenny...

Merrily taking twopenny ale and cheese with a pocket knife;
But these were luxuries not for him who went for the...

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G K Chesterton: It seems a...

G K Chesterton: It seems a...

It seems a pity that psychology should have destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

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G K Chesterton: God made the...

G K Chesterton: God made the...

God made the wicked Grocer
For a mystery and a sign,
That men might shun the awful shop
And go to inns to...

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G K Chesterton: With monstrous head...

G K Chesterton: With monstrous head...

With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings,
The devil's walking parody
On all...

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G K Chesterton: The folk that...

G K Chesterton: The folk that...

The folk that live in Liverpool, their heart is in their boots;
They go to hell like lambs, they do, because the...

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G K Chesterton: His English education...

G K Chesterton: His English education...

His English education at one of the great public schools had preserved his intellect perfectly and permanently at the...

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G K Chesterton: One may understand...

G K Chesterton: One may understand...

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

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G K Chesterton: Journalism largely consists...

G K Chesterton: Journalism largely consists...

Journalism largely consists in saying `Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was...

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G K Chesterton: With any recovery...

G K Chesterton: With any recovery...

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

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G K Chesterton: Tradition means giving...

G K Chesterton: Tradition means giving...

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes --our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. ...

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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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