187 Quotations by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 41. Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about som ...
- 42. Even among liars there are two classes, one immeasurably better than another. The honest liar is the ...
- 43. Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
- 44. Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
- 45. Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a m ...
- 46. Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
- 47. Half a truth is better than no politics.
- 48. Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.
- 49. Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time ...
- 50. He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank; he lives in impersonality; he lives in Nirv ...
- 51. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
- 52. How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
- 53. I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.
- 54. I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls ...
- 55. I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and do ...
- 56. I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
- 57. If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
- 58. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
- 59. If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would esca ...
- 60. If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you ...
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