Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton

English writer

Alive from: 1874-1936

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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  A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

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  Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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  A yawn is a silent shout.

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  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.

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  Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

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  The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

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  What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

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  "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."

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  ''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''

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  A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

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  A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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  A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

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  A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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  A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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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.