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Quotations by author » Gilbert K. Chesterton
English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936
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Spring never is Spring unless it comes too soon.
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St George he was for England, / And before he killed the dragon / He drank a pint of English ale / Out of an English flagon.
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Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far, / Don John of Austria is going to the war.
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Talk about the pews and steeples/ And the cash that goes therewith!/ But the souls of Christian peoples . . ./ Chuck it, Smith!
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Tea, although an Oriental, / Is a gentleman at least; / Cocoa is a cad and coward, / Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force the thing becomes a pressure, and produces def
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The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
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The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
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The first of all democratic doctrines is that all men are interesting.
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The folk that live in Liverpool, their heart is in their boots; / They go to hell like lambs, they do, because the hooter hoots.
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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
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The gallows in my garden, people say, / Is new and neat and adequately tall.
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong.
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The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.
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