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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Whatever the word great means, Dickens was what it means.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Passion makes every detail important.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
Gilbert K. 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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
And it is always the humble man who talks too much the proud man watches himself too closely.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
