G K Chesterton

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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G K Chesterton: When you have...

G K Chesterton: When you have...

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us...

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G K Chesterton: What people call...

G K Chesterton: What people call...

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental...

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G K Chesterton: Youth is the...

G K Chesterton: Youth is the...

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of...

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G K Chesterton: Earth will grow...

G K Chesterton: Earth will grow...

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it,
And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.


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G K Chesterton: The honest poor...

G K Chesterton: The honest poor...

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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G K Chesterton: The disadvantage of...

G K Chesterton: The disadvantage of...

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of...

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G K Chesterton: When we really...

G K Chesterton: When we really...

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very...

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G K Chesterton: Facts as facts...

G K Chesterton: Facts as facts...

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

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G K Chesterton: The most dangerous...

G K Chesterton: The most dangerous...

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists...

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G K Chesterton: If our caricaturists...

G K Chesterton: If our caricaturists...

If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their...

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