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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
— G.K. Chesterton
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is vain for Mr. McCabe to say that a ballet is a part of him. He should be part of a ballet, or else he is only part of a man.
— G.K. Chesterton
He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
— G.K. Chesterton
Now when a man is as right as that in his forecasts, there is some reason to think he may be right in his premises.
— Frank Sheed
As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
— G.K. Chesterton
What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.
— G.K. Chesterton
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.
— G.K. Chesterton
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Half a truth is better than no politics.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
— G.K. Chesterton
There is only one thing that that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
— G.K. Chesterton
A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud.
— G.K. Chesterton
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
— G.K. Chesterton
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.
— G.K. Chesterton
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
— G.K. Chesterton
There was a man who had a fly in his eye when he looked through the telescope, and he discovered that there was a most incredible dragon in the moon.
— G.K. Chesterton
But it's my reading of human nature that a man will cheat in his trade, but not in his hobby.
— G.K. Chesterton
Always be comic in a tragedy
— G.K. Chesterton
No man is such a legalist as the good Secularist.
— G.K. Chesterton
A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
— G.K. Chesterton
Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.
— G.K. Chesterton
What is the good of begetting a man until we have settled what is the good of being a man?
— G.K. Chesterton
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller
— G.K. Chesterton
The world will never be safe for democracy - it is a dangerous trade
— G.K. Chesterton
I've known a good many magicians myself in India - mango plant and all. But the Indian ones are all frauds, I'll swear.
— G.K. Chesterton
Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo gooGoo-goo goo-goo goo-goo
Googly, googly, googly goo:
That's how we fill a column. — G.K. Chesterton
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
— G.K. Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
— G.K. Chesterton
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil?
— G.K. Chesterton
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
— G.K. Chesterton
A man with no sword can never be beaten in swordmanship.
— G.K. Chesterton
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
— 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
It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are in the presence of a thousand lies all pointing with their fantastic fingers to one undiscovered truth.
— G.K. Chesterton
The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.
As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world. — G.K. Chesterton
But if you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
— G.K. Chesterton
A stone is helpless, because a stone is hard. The stone must by its own nature go downwards, because hardness is weakness.
— G.K. Chesterton
Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do - I can die.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language; one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it.
— G.K. Chesterton
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
— G.K. Chesterton
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.
— G.K. Chesterton
In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.
— G.K. Chesterton
Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years.
— G.K. Chesterton
No man who worships education has got the best out of education ... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
— G.K. Chesterton
Paganism declared that virtue was in a balance; Christianity declared it was in a conflict: the collision of two passions apparently opposite. Of
— G.K. Chesterton
Tolerance is the last virtue of a man without principle.
— G.K. Chesterton
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nobody has any business to use the word "progress" unless he has a definite creed and a cast-iron code of morals.
— G.K. Chesterton
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
In their doubt of miracles there was a faith in a fixed and godless fate; a deep and sincere faith in the incurable routine of the cosmos.
— G.K. Chesterton
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead.
— G.K. Chesterton
When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
For a large lemon moon was only just setting in the forest of high grass above their heads,
— G.K. Chesterton
A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
We're all really dependent in nearly everything, and we all make a fuss about being independent in something.
— G.K. Chesterton
I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.
— G.K. Chesterton
Progress is a metaphor from merely walking along a road - very likely the wrong road.
— G.K. Chesterton
There is only one good thing science ever discovered - a good thing, good tidings of great joy - that the world is round.
— G.K. Chesterton
We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. What we want is a religion that is right where we are wrong.
— G.K. Chesterton
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men are men, but Man is a woman.
— G.K. Chesterton
The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.
— P.G. Wodehouse
We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.
— G.K. Chesterton
In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.
— G.K. Chesterton
For some extraordinary reason, there is a fixed notion that it is more liberal to disbelieve in miracles than to believe in them.
— G.K. Chesterton
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
— G.K. Chesterton
Life (according to the faith) is very like a serial story in a magazine: life ends with the promise (or menace) "to be continued in our next.
— G.K. Chesterton
A radical does not mean
— G.K. Chesterton
And he set to rhyme his ale-measures,And he sang aloud his laws,
Because of the joy of giants,
The joy without a cause. — G.K. Chesterton
