| 29 Famous Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”
Love Quotes |
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“Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.”
Virtue Quotes |
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“No man knows he is young while he is young.”
Youth Quotes |
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“Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.”
Chastity Quotes |
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“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”
Courage Quotes |
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“You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.”
Fight Quotes |
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“Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.”
Hygiene Quotes |
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“Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.”
Ritual Quotes |
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“O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry; Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide; Take not Thy thunder from us, But take away our pride. From all that terror teaches, From lies of tongue and pen; From all the easy speeches That comfort cruel men; From sale and profanation Of honor and the sword; From sleep and from damnation, Deliver us, good Lord! Tie in a living tether The prince and priest and thrall; Bind all our lives together, Smite us and save us all; In ire and exultation Aflame with faith, and free, Lift up a living nation, A single sword to Thee.”
Christianity Quotes |
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“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”
Action Quotes |
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“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
Art and artists Quotes |
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“A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.”
Boys Quotes |
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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.”
Cleverness Quotes |
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“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.”
Compromise Quotes |
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“"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".”
Country Quotes |
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“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”
Courage 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.”
Democracy Quotes |
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“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
Education Quotes |
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“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.”
Education Quotes |
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“The present condition of fame is merely fashion.”
Fame Quotes |
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“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
Love Quotes |
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“People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.”
Quarrel Quotes |
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“You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.”
Quotation Quotes |
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“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes |
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“The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.”
Retirement Quotes |
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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