Gilbert Chesterton ,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.

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Large organization is loose or...

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

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Nothing is poetical if plain d...

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

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The cosmos is about the smalle...

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

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The greenhorn is the ultimate ...

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

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What people call impartiality ...

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

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Women prefer to talk in twos, ...

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

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A radical generally meant a ma...

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.

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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.

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Happy is he who still loves so...

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

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Those thinkers who cannot beli...

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

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Man is an exception, whatever ...

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

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A man who says that no patriot...

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

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Men always talk about the most...

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

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White... is not a mere absence...

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

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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.

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I was planning to go into arch...

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

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Once I planned to write a book...

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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Man does not live by soap alon...

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

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The ordinary scientific man is...

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

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