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Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotes
“You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“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 Keith Chesterton
“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Coincidences are spiritual puns.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“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.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Half a truth is better than no politics.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“The present condition of fame is merely fashion.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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