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Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotes
“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 Keith Chesterton
“The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“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 Keith Chesterton
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“The only defensible war is a war of defense.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“New roads; new ruts.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“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 Keith Chesterton
“The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.”
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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