G. K. Chesterton Quotes

Art, Like Morality, Consists Of Drawing The Line Somewhere.

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Education Is Simply The Soul Of A Society As It Passes From One Generation To Another.

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All Slang Is A Metaphor, And All Metaphor Is Poetry.

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If There Were No God, There Would Be No Atheists.

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I Do Not Believe In A Fate That Falls On All Men However They Act; But I Do Believe In A Fate That Falls On Them Unless They Act.

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A Good Novel Tells Us The Truth About Its Hero; But A Bad Novel Tells Us The Truth About Its Author.

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There Is A Great Deal Of Difference Between An Eager Man Who Wants To Read A Book And The Tired Man Who Wants A Book To Read.

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Journalism Largely Consists Of Saying ‘Lord Jones Is Dead’ To People Who Never Knew That Lord Jones Was Alive.

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But A Somewhat More Liberal And Sympathetic Examination Of Mankind Will Convince Us That The Cross Is Even Older Than The Gibbet, That Voluntary Suffering Was Before And Independent Of Compulsory; And In Short That In Most Important Matters A Man Has Always Been Free To Ruin Himself If He Chose.

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Poets Have Been Mysteriously Silent On The Subject Of Cheese.

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The Thing I Hate About An Argument Is That It Always Interrupts A Discussion.

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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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Happiness Is A Mystery Like Religion, And Should Never Be Rationalized.

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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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