Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 49

• In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.

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  Matter, Sides, Reeds

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• A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

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  Animal, Elephants, Wicked

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• Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.

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  Men, Hair, Flames

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

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  Lessons, Fairytale, Fairy Tale

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• A naked moon stood in a naked sky.

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  Moon, Sky, Naked

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

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  Moon, Men, Man In The Moon

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.

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  Art, Essence, Long

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

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  Life Is, Bad Jokes, Prophecy

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• Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

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  Men, Holy Places, Morality

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

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  Men, Devil, Satan

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• I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

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  Stars, Believe, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

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  Men, Hair, Long

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.

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  Sadness, World, Reason

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

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  Lying, Book, Nurse

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

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  Mean, Liberty, Superstitions

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

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  Anger, Fighting, Names

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• The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

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  Party, Anger, Rage

  "The Skeptic as a Critic" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1929.

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• A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

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  Time, Men, Orthodox

  "George Bernard Shaw". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

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  Death, Courage, Inches

  "The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton".

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• Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

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  Fun, Vision, Dull

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• No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

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  Drinking, Beer, Animal

  All Things Considered (1908) "Wine When it is Red"

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• If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

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  Rewards, Wealth, Prosperity

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• The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

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  Atheist, Atheism, Not Interested

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• A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

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  Military, Men, Elderly

  "Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.

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• All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

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  Timeless, Exaggeration, Ifs

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