Gilbert K. Chesterton's Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton's Quotes 72

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is...

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is...

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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last...

The traveler sees what he sees the tourist sees what he has come to see.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use however is to...

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their...

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of...

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Half a truth is better than no politics.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes our...

All slang is metaphor and all metaphor is poetry.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

To be clever enough to get all that money one must be stupid enough to want...

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not...

Some men never feel small but these are the few men who are.

Fable is more historical than fact because fact tells us about one man and...

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never...

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and...

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher....

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not...

Women prefer to talk in twos while men prefer to talk in threes.

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