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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  • Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
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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.
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  • Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
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  • Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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  • Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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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.
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  • Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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  • Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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  • My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
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  • Nature is not our mother, Nature is our sister.
    Source: The Eternal Revolution
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  • New roads; new ruts.
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  • No man knows he is young while he is young.
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  • Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
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  • Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
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  • Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
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  • One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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  • One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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  • One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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  • People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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  • People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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