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Only poor men get hanged. ...

Only poor men get hanged.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

In the fairy tale, an incompr...

In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

No man should leave in the un...

No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We are passing into a social ...

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I entertain a private suspici...

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I like the Cyclostyle ink; it...

I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do. The startling wetness of water excites and intoxicates me: the fieriness of fire, the steeliness of steel, the unutterable muddiness of mud. It is just the same with people.... When we call a man "manly" or a woman "womanly" we touch the deepest philosophy.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

He has come to the most dread...

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A naked moon stood in a naked...

A naked moon stood in a naked sky.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Among the rich you will never...

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Even the moon is only poetica...

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Fallacies do not cease to be ...

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Most modern freedom is at roo...

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

They said that I should lose ...

They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The ignorant pronounce it Fro...

The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I suppose every one must have...

I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A thing may be too sad to be ...

A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The Catholic Church is like a...

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Free verse'? You may as well ...

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

But I was frightfully fond of...

But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

To complain that I could only...

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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