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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  • The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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  • The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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  • The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
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  • The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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  • The mere brute pleasure of reading, the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
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  • The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
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  • The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
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  • The only defensible war is a war of defense.
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  • The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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  • The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
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  • The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
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  • The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
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  • The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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  • The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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  • The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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  • The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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  • The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
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  • The simplification of anything is always sensational.
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  • The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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  • The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.
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