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 traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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  • The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
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  • The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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  • The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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  • The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
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  • The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
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  • The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
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  • The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
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  • Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
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  • There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice.''
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  • There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
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  • There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.
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  • There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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  • There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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  • There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
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  • There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
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  • They died to save their country and they only saved the world.
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  • They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
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  • Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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  • Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
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