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Properly speaking, of course,...

Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

What is the good of words if ...

What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

For Tommy, on that hot and em...

For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Thrift is poetic because it i...

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

People wonder why the novel i...

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It was not the house that gre...

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Do not be proud of the fact t...

Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppo...

Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

In anything that does cover t...

In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Progress should mean that we ...

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Customs are generally unselfi...

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It has been often said, very ...

It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There are two kinds of people...

There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is a law written in the...

There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is one thing to describe a...

It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

In truth, there are only two ...

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Just at present you only see ...

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Excuse me if I enjoy myself r...

Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets...

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Your offer," he said, "is far...

Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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