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We talk of wild animals, but ...

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Before the Roman came to Rye ...

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

(Tradition) is the democracy ...

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Though I believe in liberalis...

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The diseased pride [of artist...

The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The true savage is a slave, a...

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

When once you have got hold o...

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

[V]ariety of climate should a...

[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is also an insulting sp...

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Earth will grow worse till me...

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

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is nothing harder to le...

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The old idea that the joke wa...

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Unless a man starts afresh ab...

Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The word good has many meanin...

The word good has many meanings.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A great deal of contemporary ...

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

This is the age in which thin...

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

To hurry through one's leisur...

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I still hold. . .that the sub...

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The great majority of people ...

The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There are arguments for athei...

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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