Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton with virtue

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

English writer

Lived from: 1874 - 1936

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 29 may 1874 Died: 14 june 1936

  • Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
  • Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

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  • If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
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  • Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
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  • The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
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  • Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
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