Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotations

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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.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Writing]

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Writing]

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Golf]

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Education]

No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Education]

All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Poetry]

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Poetry]

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Music]

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Perspective]

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Perspective]

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Action]

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Books]

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Attitude]

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Patriotism]

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Religion]

Suppose some mathematical creature from the moon were to reckon up the human body; he would at once see that the essential thing about it was that it was duplicate. A man is two men, he on the right exactly resembling him on the left. Having noted that there was an arm on the right and one on the left, a leg on the right and one on the left, he might go further and still find on each side the same number of fingers, the same number of toes, twin eyes, twin ears, twin nostrils, and even twin lobes of the brain. At last he would take it as a law; and then, where he found a heart on one side, would deduce that there was another heart on the other. And just then, where he most felt he was right, he would be wrong.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Humankind]

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Adversity]

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Psychology]

Psychoanalysis: Confession without absolution.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Psychology]

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
	- Gilbert Keith Chesterton	more quotations on [Courage]

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