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G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Famous G. K. Chesterton Quotations
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conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion; in addition to volumes of criticism and polemics he wrote detective novels featuring Father Brown (1874-1936)
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- "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
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- A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.
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- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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- All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
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- An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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- An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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- Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
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- Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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- By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
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- Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.
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- Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
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- Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
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- I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.
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- I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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- I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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- I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
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- I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...
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- If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.
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- If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
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- It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
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- It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
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- It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
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- Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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- Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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- Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
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- Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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- Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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- My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober.
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- People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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- Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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- The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
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- The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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- The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
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- The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
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- The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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- There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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- There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
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- To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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- Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
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- Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
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- You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution
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