G. K. Chesterton quotes - page 2

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. (G. K. Chesterton)
The simplification of anything is always sensational. View quote
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. View quote
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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. View quote
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I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution. View quote
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. View quote
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We are filled with the first of all democratic doctrines, that all men are interesting. View quote
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Everybody wants to be informed honestly, impartially, truthfully - in total accordance with his views. View quote
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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. View quote
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. View quote
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time. (G. K. Chesterton)
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. View quote
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. View quote
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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. View quote
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. View quote
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The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. View quote
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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. View quote
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. View quote
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I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself. View quote
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I judged the Poles by their enemies. And I found it was an almost unfailing- truth that their enemies were the enemies of magna- nimity and manhood. If a man loved slavery, if he loved usury, if he loved terrorism and all the trampled mire of materialistic politics, I have always found that he added to these affections the passion of a hatred of Poland. She could be judged in the light of that hatred; and the judgment has proved to be right. View quote
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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. (G. K. Chesterton)
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. View quote
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I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule. View quote
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Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man? View quote
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Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath. View quote
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