Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
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Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
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If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkeness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says that Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by Poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something which is not so much false as startling and arrestingly foolish. He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.
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Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom.
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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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