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Quotations by author » Gilbert K. Chesterton
English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
Journalism
Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
Journalism
Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
Life
Literature has always been allegorical.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
LiteratureWorld
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Lies
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
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Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Marriage
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
Cruelty
Merrily taking twopenny ale and cheese with a pocket knife; / But these were luxuries not for him who went for the Simple Life.
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Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
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