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