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Quotations by author » Gilbert K. Chesterton
English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936
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Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
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An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, / `I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine'.
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And they that rule in England, / In stately conclave met, / Alas, alas for England / They have no graves as yet.
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And we were angry and poor and happy, / And proud of seeing our names in print.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity.
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Are they clinging to their crosses, / F. E. Smith?
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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Before the gods that made the gods / Had seen their sunrise pass, / The White Horse of the White Horse Vale / Was cut out of the grass.
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Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
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Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
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Blasphemy itself could not survive religion; if anyone doubts that, let him try to blaspheme Odin.
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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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