Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes, Gilbert K. Chesterton sayings, and Gilbert K. Chesterton proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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 K. Chesterton
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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.Gilbert K. Chesterton