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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.
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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There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
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It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
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Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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.
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Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
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White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.
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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
