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How quickly revolutions grow ...

How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

For fear of the newspapers po...

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It's not that we don't have e...

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is a case for telling t...

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We have had no good comic ope...

We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A man must be orthodox upon m...

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

People seem to fight about th...

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The old restriction meant tha...

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

No animal ever invented anyth...

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The whole truth is generally ...

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There are many definite metho...

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The unconscious democracy of ...

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Even in an empire of atheists...

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

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

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

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

To hurry through one's leisur...

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

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

What life and death may be to...

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We make our friends; we make ...

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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