Special Dictionary / Quotations / G. K. Chesterton
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47 Quotations of G. K. Chesterton.
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"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying e ...2.
A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go agai ...3.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the tru ...4.
A room without books is like a body without a ...5.
All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is po ...6.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an ...7.
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line some ...8.
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools suppor ...9.
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince ...10.
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition tha ...11.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, ...12.
Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's ...13.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was ...14.
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fa ...15.
For in all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible ...16.
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method ...17.
His horror is wild, but it is a sane hor ...18.
I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you ...19.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and th ...20.
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he h ...| Next Page >> |
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