G K Chesterton

G K Chesterton: The family is...

G K Chesterton: The family is...

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by...

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G K Chesterton: The artistic temperament...

G K Chesterton: The artistic temperament...

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. . . . Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid...

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G K Chesterton: If I had...

G K Chesterton: If I had...

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Source: In...

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G K Chesterton: Science in the...

G K Chesterton: Science in the...

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the...

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G K Chesterton: The men that...

G K Chesterton: The men that...

The men that worked for England
They have their graves at home.


Source: Elegy in...

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G K Chesterton: What affects men...

G K Chesterton: What affects men...

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather...

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G K Chesterton: There is no...

G K Chesterton: There is no...

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested...

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G K Chesterton: Literature and fiction...

G K Chesterton: Literature and fiction...

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a...

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G K Chesterton: The word 'orthodoxy'...

G K Chesterton: The word 'orthodoxy'...

The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being...

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G K Chesterton: If prosperity is...

G K Chesterton: If prosperity is...

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of...

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G K Chesterton: A good novel...

G K Chesterton: A good novel...

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its...

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G K Chesterton: Carlyle said that...

G K Chesterton: Carlyle said that...

Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all...

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G K Chesterton: Literature has always...

G K Chesterton: Literature has always...

Literature has always been allegorical.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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G K Chesterton: Charity is the...

G K Chesterton: Charity is the...

Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in...

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G K Chesterton: We ought to...

G K Chesterton: We ought to...

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

Source:...

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G K Chesterton: Adventure is the...

G K Chesterton: Adventure is the...

Adventure is the champagne of life.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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G K Chesterton: There is one...

G K Chesterton: There is one...

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the...

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G K Chesterton: Merely having an...

G K Chesterton: Merely having an...

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on...

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G K Chesterton: As enunciated today,...

G K Chesterton: As enunciated today,...

As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the...

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G K Chesterton: It is at...

G K Chesterton: It is at...

It is at unimportant moments that a man is a gentleman. At important moments he ought to be something...

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