G. K. Chesterton Short Quotes

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Am in Market Harborough. Where ought I to be?

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A machine is a machine because it cannot think.

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Are they clinging to their crosses, F. E. Smith?

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And goodness only knowses
The Noselessness of Man.

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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Aesthetics never do anything but what they are told.

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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

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The simplification of anything is always sensational.

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A small circle is quite as infinite as a large circle.

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America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

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Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

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If the apple hit Newton's nose, Newton's nose hit the apple.

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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

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The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

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He could not think up to the height of his own towering style.
Of Lord Tennyson

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They died to save their country and they only saved the world.

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There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

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They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.

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Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

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I object to a quarrel because it always interrupts an argument.

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I do think the Essay has wandered too far away from the Thesis.

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