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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes

English Writer May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936

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There is a tradition that jumping off a precipice is prejudicial to the health; and therefore nobody does it. Then appears a progressive prophet and reformer, who points out that we really know nothing about it, because nobody does it. And the tradition is thereby mocked - to the peril of us all. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light."
It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "There is only one thing that that it requires real courage to..."
There is only one thing that that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily..."
For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: thatpeople do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus it mayor may not be right to kill a murderer; but it can only conceivablybe right to kill a murderer because it is wrong to kill a man. Gilbert K. Chesterton
It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man..."
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children. Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion."
You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An..."
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. Gilbert K. Chesterton
A hunger for civilization is an appetite not easily appreciated now, when people are so overcivilized that they can only have a hunger for barbarism. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "But always, it has been truly said, the savage is talkative..."
But always, it has been truly said, the savage is talkative about his mythology and taciturn about his religion. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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