G. K. Chesterton Quotes

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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
- G.K. Chesterton

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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
- G.K. Chesterton

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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
– G.K. Chesterton

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I always like a dog so long as he isn’t spelled backward.
- G.K. Chesterton

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
- G. K. Chesterton

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
- G. K. Chesterton

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Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
- G.K. Chesterton

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
- G.K. Chesterton

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- G. K. Chesterton

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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
- G.K. Chesterton

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The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before.
- G.K. Chesterton

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The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
- G.K. Chesterton

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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
- G.K. Chesterton

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Silence is the unbearable repartee.
- G. K. Chesterton

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
- G.K. Chesterton

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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
- G. K. Chesterton

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It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
- G.K. Chesterton

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Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
- G.K. Chesterton

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Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
- G.K. Chesterton

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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
- G. K. Chesterton

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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
- G.K. Chesterton

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Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, Faith means believing the unbelievable, And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.
- G. K. Chesterton

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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity.
- G. K. Chesterton

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The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
– G.K. Chesterton

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- G. K. Chesterton

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