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Literature is a luxury; ficti...

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

When we were children we were...

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Ritual will always mean throw...

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Large organization is loose o...

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Cruelty is, perhaps, the wors...

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Journalism largely consists o...

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The honest poor can sometimes...

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

People who make history know ...

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Compromise used to mean that ...

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

You can never have a revoluti...

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A radical generally meant a m...

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We are justified in enforcing...

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Coincidences are spiritual pu...

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The purpose of Compulsory Edu...

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Experience which was once cla...

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

What affects men sharply abou...

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Man seems to be capable of gr...

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The object of opening the min...

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

And they that rule in England...

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is not funny that anything...

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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