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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  • To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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  • To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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  • To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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  • Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
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  • Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes - our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.
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  • True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
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  • Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
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  • Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
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  • We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
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  • We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
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  • We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.
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  • We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
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  • What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
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  • When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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  • When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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  • White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
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  • With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
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  • Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
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  • You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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  • You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
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