All Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton in
Art
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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Sports
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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert K. Chesterton in
Religion
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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton in
Intelligence
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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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton in
Politics
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton in
Love
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
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