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Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
My country, right or wrong is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying My mother, drunk or sober. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
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. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
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. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
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. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
A yawn is a silent shout. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
Coincidences are spiritual puns. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
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. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
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