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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  • Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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  • Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
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  • Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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  • Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
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  • Silence is the unbearable repartee.
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  • Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
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  • The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
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  • The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs
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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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  • The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
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  • The classes that wash most are those that work least.
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  • The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
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  • The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
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  • The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
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  • The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
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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.
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  • The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
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  • The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
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  • The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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  • The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
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