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.'
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A dying monarchy is always one that has too much power, not too little; a dying religion always interferes more than it ought, not less.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The right kind of monarchy is one where everybody goes about with the permanent conviction that the king can do no wrong.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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 K. Chesterton
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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.Gilbert K. Chesterton