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There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. Moral truisms have been so much disputed that they have begun to sparkle like so many brilliant paradoxes (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
If you’d take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can’t say. But it might (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
If you know what a man’s doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he’s doing keep behind him (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
His head was always most valuable when he had lost it. In such moments he put two and two together and made four million (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
He was, if ever there was one, an inspired poet. I do not think it the highest sort of poet. And you never discover who is an inspired poet until the inspiration goes (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
He had the notion that because I am a clergyman I should believe anything. Many people have little notions of that kind (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
You could compile, I should think, the worst book in the world entirely out of selecting passages from the best writers in the world (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)