| 57 Famous Quotes by G. K. Chesterton
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“Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.”
Adulthood Quotes |
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“If you want the last word, apologize”
Apologies Quotes |
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“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”
Aristocracy Quotes |
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“Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.”
Compromise Quotes |
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“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.”
Conservatism Quotes |
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“'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'”
Country Quotes |
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“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.”
Cruelty Quotes |
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“People in general are cruel to one another. The only way to have fun to them is to make fun of someone. I hate that. Why can't someone be different.why can't someone be themselves without being made fun of? I hate society because of how they judge pe”
Cruelty Quotes |
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“There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.”
Eyes Quotes |
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“A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.”
Insults Quotes |
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“Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.”
Journalism Quotes |
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“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”
Mankind Quotes |
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“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul”
New year Quotes |
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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.”
Revolution Quotes |
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“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.”
Solution Quotes |
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”
Tolerance Quotes |
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“Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.”
Traditions Quotes |
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“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”
Travel Quotes |
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“Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.”
Wit Quotes |
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“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”
Youth Quotes |
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“Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.”
Virtue Quotes |
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“Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.”
Courage Quotes |
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“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.”
Courage Quotes |
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“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”
Golf Quotes |
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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.”
Greatness Quotes |
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G. K. Chesterton Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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