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Famous Quotes By G. K. Chesterton

Famous quotes made by the English journalist, author, and critic, Gilbet Keith Chesterton. He was born on May 29, 1874 at Campden Hill, Kensington, London. G. K. Chesterton died on June 14, 1936.

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The modern humanitarian can love all opinions, including the opinion that men are unlovable.

Inspiration at its best means breath, and only too frequently means wind.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

Companionate marriage is so-called because the people involved are not married and will very rapidly cease to be companions.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

The wickedest work in this world is symbolized not by a wine glass, but by a looking-glass.

There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Once men sang together round a table in chorus; now one man sings alone for the absurd reason that he can sing better.

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In England we have come to rely on a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century invervening between the perception that something ought to be done a serious attempt to do it.

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