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To be clever enough to get all...

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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

Journalism largely consists of...

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

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Man seems to be capable of gre...

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

People who make history know n...

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

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The whole order of things is a...

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is but an inch of differ...

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Artistic temperament is the di...

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Do not free a camel of the bur...

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Never invoke the gods unless y...

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Some men never feel small, but...

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Buddhism is not a creed, it is...

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Experience which was once clai...

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

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Science in the modern world ha...

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The man who throws a bomb is a...

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The only defensible war is a w...

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The vulgar man is always the m...

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

When we really worship anythin...

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

True contentment is a thing as...

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Men feel that cruelty to the p...

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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