G K Chesterton

G K Chesterton: Children are innocent...

G K Chesterton: Children are innocent...

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.

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G K Chesterton: A man who...

G K Chesterton: A man who...

A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool.

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G K Chesterton: Nonsense is a...

G K Chesterton: Nonsense is a...

Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.

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G K Chesterton: You shouldn't take...

G K Chesterton: You shouldn't take...

You shouldn't take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

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G K Chesterton: It is the...

G K Chesterton: It is the...

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

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G K Chesterton: Fable is more...

G K Chesterton: Fable is more...

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million...

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G K Chesterton: Materialists and madmen...

G K Chesterton: Materialists and madmen...

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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G K Chesterton: The most wonderful...

G K Chesterton: The most wonderful...

The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happen.

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G K Chesterton: I believe in...

G K Chesterton: I believe in...

I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.

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G K Chesterton: Marriage is an...

G K Chesterton: Marriage is an...

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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G K Chesterton: Gullibility is the...

G K Chesterton: Gullibility is the...

Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who get the...

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G K Chesterton: Poets have been...

G K Chesterton: Poets have been...

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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G K Chesterton: The poetry of...

G K Chesterton: The poetry of...

The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love...

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G K Chesterton: A man does...

G K Chesterton: A man does...

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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G K Chesterton: Silence is the...

G K Chesterton: Silence is the...

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

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

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G K Chesterton: It is not...

G K Chesterton: It is not...

It is not the man of pleasure who has pleasure; it is not the man of the world who appreciates the world. ... It is...

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G K Chesterton: The doctrine of...

G K Chesterton: The doctrine of...

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is...

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G K Chesterton: To say that...

G K Chesterton: To say that...

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

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G K Chesterton: Do not free...

G K Chesterton: Do not free...

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

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G K Chesterton: The prophet and...

G K Chesterton: The prophet and...

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong...

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