Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

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  • Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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  • Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
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  • Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
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  • Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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  • Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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  • Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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  • Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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  • Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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  • Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
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  • Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
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  • Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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  • Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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  • Half a truth is better than no politics.
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  • Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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  • Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.
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  • How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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  • I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.
    Source: The Man Who Was Thursday
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  • I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.
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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.
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  • I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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