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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
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
There are two ways of getting home and one of them is to stay there.
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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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
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An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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No man knows he is young while he is young.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
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A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
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It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!
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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, Life is not worth living. We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day nobody thinks that it can possibly have any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, the world would stand on its head.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
And it is always the humble man who talks too much the proud man watches himself too closely.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
