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.'
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.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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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.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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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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.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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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.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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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.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 woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.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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All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own mannersGilbert K. Chesterton