All Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
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To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
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