Famous Gk Chesterton Quotations

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"Coincidences are spiritual puns."
by G.K. Chesterton
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."
by G.K. Chesterton
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
by G.K. Chesterton
"What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read."
by G.K. Chesterton
"A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence."
by G.K. Chesterton
"A room without books is like a body without a soul"
by GK Chesterton
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere"
by GK Chesterton
"I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles."
by G.K. Chesterton
"If there were no God, there would be no Atheists"
by GK Chesterton
"Is one religion as good as another? Is one horse in the Derby as good as another? by"
by GK Chesterton
"It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary"
by GK Chesterton
"Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline"
by GK Chesterton
"Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them."
by G.K. Chesterton
"Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter."
by G.K. Chesterton
"One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly."
by G.K. Chesterton
"Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."
by G.K. Chesterton
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people"
by GK Chesterton
"The classes that wash most are those that work least."
by G.K. Chesterton
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried"
by GK Chesterton
"The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous"
by GK Chesterton
"The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents."
by G.K. Chesterton
"The only right way of telling a story is to begin at the beginning--at the beginning of the world. Therefore all books have to be begun in the wrong way for the sake of brevity"
by GK Chesterton
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
by G.K. Chesterton
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese"
by GK Chesterton
"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits."
by G.K. Chesterton
"The simplification of anything is always sensational"
by GK Chesterton
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him"
by GK Chesterton
"Theology is only thought applied to religion"
by GK Chesterton
"There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions"
by GK Chesterton
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read"
by GK Chesterton
"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong"
by GK Chesterton
"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it"
by GK Chesterton
"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around"
by GK Chesterton
"We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbor."
by G.K. Chesterton
"When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it"
by GK Chesterton
"When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything"
by GK Chesterton
"Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody? by"
by GK Chesterton
"Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue"
by GK Chesterton
"Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men"
by GK Chesterton
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it"
by GK Chesterton


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