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G. K. Chesterton Quotes and Quotations
 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. - G. K. Chesterton | America and Americans Quotes  Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. - G. K. Chesterton | Art and the Artist Quotes Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. - G. K. Chesterton | Conversation Quotes The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. - G. K. Chesterton | Courage and Bravery Quotes Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. - G. K. Chesterton | Democracy Quotes There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. - G. K. Chesterton | Enemies Quotes Leisure is being allowed to do nothing. - G. K. Chesterton | Enjoyment and Pleasure Quotes We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour. - G. K. Chesterton | Friends and Friendship Quotes The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. - G. K. Chesterton | Goodness and Giving Quotes Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized. - G. K. Chesterton | Happiness Quotes Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks. - G. K. Chesterton | The Home Quotes A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man. - G. K. Chesterton | Life Quotes Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. - G. K. Chesterton | Men and Women Quotes I am not absent-minded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else. - G. K. Chesterton | The Mind Quotes Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. - G. K. Chesterton | The Mind Quotes A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy. - G. K. Chesterton | Mistakes and Blunders Quotes To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. - G. K. Chesterton | Money Quotes Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist. - G. K. Chesterton | Music Quotes Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun. - G. K. Chesterton | Nature Quotes Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. - G. K. Chesterton | Order and Organization Quotes The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's. - G. K. Chesterton | Poets and Poetry Quotes New roads; new ruts. - G. K. Chesterton | Progress Quotes Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. - G. K. Chesterton | Psychiatry Quotes Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. - G. K. Chesterton | Quips and Comments Quotes Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. - G. K. Chesterton | Reality Quotes When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything. - G. K. Chesterton | Religion Quotes One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. - G. K. Chesterton | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes Silence is the unbearable repartee. - G. K. Chesterton | Silence Quotes The classes that wash most are those that work least. - G. K. Chesterton | Society and Social Quotes A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying. - G. K. Chesterton | Speakers and Speeches Quotes One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. - G. K. Chesterton | Travel and Travellers Quotes A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money, but even practises it without any hope of doing it well. - G. K. Chesterton | Work Quotes The true object of all human life is play. - G. K. Chesterton | Happiness Quotes No man can be merry unless he is serious. - G. K. Chesterton | Happiness Quotes Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life. - G. K. Chesterton | Happiness Quotes Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity. - G. K. Chesterton | Acceptance Quotes Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, faith means believing the unbelievable, and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless. - G. K. Chesterton | Forgiveness Quotes You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. - G. K. Chesterton | Forgiveness Quotes It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got. - G. K. Chesterton | Forgiveness Quotes The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. - G. K. Chesterton | Forgiveness Quotes True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous, and it is rare. - G. K. Chesterton | Forgiveness Quotes The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed. - G. K. Chesterton | Faith and Unity Quotes One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. - G. K. Chesterton | Self-Knowledge Quotes To be simple is the best thing in the world. - G. K. Chesterton | Simplicity Quotes He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank; he lives in impersonality; he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream. - G. K. Chesterton | The Future Quotes Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. - G. K. Chesterton | Hope Quotes Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, Faith means believing the unbelievable, And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless. - G. K. Chesterton | Hope Quotes There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner. - G. K. Chesterton | Goals Quotes The true object of human life is play. - G. K. Chesterton | Goals Quotes Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. - G. K. Chesterton | Goals Quotes The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it. - G. K. Chesterton | Courage Quotes Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. - G. K. Chesterton | Courage Quotes I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act. - G. K. Chesterton | Getting Going Quotes The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. - G. K. Chesterton | Concentration Quotes There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell. - G. K. Chesterton | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem. - G. K. Chesterton | Problems Quotes Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - G. K. Chesterton | Worthy Victories Quotes True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it. - G. K. Chesterton | Events Quotes The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. - G. K. Chesterton | Heartbreak Quotes Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - G. K. Chesterton | Perseverance Quotes The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. - G. K. Chesterton | Religion Quotes Silence is the unbearable repartee. - G. K. Chesterton | Silence Quotes Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life. - G. K. Chesterton | Happy Quotes Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - G. K. Chesterton | Witty Quotes Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life. - G. K. Chesterton | Happy Quotes Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - G. K. Chesterton | Witty Quotes Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life. - G. K. Chesterton | Happy Quotes Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - G. K. Chesterton | Witty Quotes Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life. - G. K. Chesterton | Happy Quotes Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - G. K. Chesterton | Witty Quotes Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life. - G. K. Chesterton | Happy Quotes Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - G. K. Chesterton | Witty Quotes Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life. - G. K. Chesterton | Happy Quotes Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - G. K. Chesterton | Witty Quotes Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life. - G. K. Chesterton | Happy Quotes Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - G. K. Chesterton | Witty Quotes Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life. - G. K. Chesterton | Happy Quotes Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - G. K. Chesterton | Witty Quotes 
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