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Quotations by author » Gilbert K. Chesterton
English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936
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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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Fools! for I also had my hour; / One far fierce hour and sweet: / There was a shout about my ears, / And palms before my feet.
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For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
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For the great Gaels of Ireland / Are the men that God made mad, / For all their wars are merry, / And all their songs are sad.
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For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, / Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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God made the wicked Grocer / For a mystery and a sign, / That men might shun the awful shop/ And go to inns to dine.
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Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who get the most out of life.
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Half a truth is better than no politics.
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Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.
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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
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Hardy went down to botanize in the swamp, while Meredith climbed towards the sun. Meredith became, at his best, a sort of daintily dressed Walt Whitman: Hardy became a sort of village atheist brooding and blaspheming over the village idiot.
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He could not think up to the height of his own towering style.
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He crams with cans of poisoned meat / The subjects of the King, / And when they die by thousands / Why, he laughs like anything.
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His English education at one of the great public schools had preserved his intellect perfectly and permanently at the stage of boyhood.
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How beautiful it would be for someone who could not read.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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I believe in getting into hot water - it helps keep you clean.
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