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When Michelangelo finished the...

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Art, like morality, consists i...

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A man can never quite understa...

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The doctrine of human equality...

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Compromise used to mean that h...

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

'My country, right or wrong,...

'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Courage is almost a contradict...

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Education is the period during...

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The present condition of fame ...

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The IRS spends God knows how m...

The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A tragey means always a man's ...

A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Literature is a luxury; fictio...

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Beneath the rule of men entire...

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A good novel tells us the trut...

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The way to love anything is to...

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

If you are afraid of lonelines...

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Virtue is not the absense of v...

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Tremendous Trifles.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Dogma does not mean the absenc...

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is very good for a man to t...

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

People generally quarrel becau...

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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