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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes

English Writer May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936

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Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that..."
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone..."
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The poetic does not misrepresent the speech one half so much..."
The poetic does not misrepresent the speech one half so much as the speech misrepresents the soul. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon..."
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined."
Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no..."
I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no..."
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. Gilbert K. Chesterton
We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "In the glad old days, before the rise of modern..."
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "In every society, the rich are the scum of the earth."
In every society, the rich are the scum of the earth. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "And the second as an old man might say it about the weather;..."
And the second as an old man might say it about the weather; not without sincerity but certainly without fervour. Gilbert K. Chesterton
And the greatest of the poets, when he defined the poet, did not say that he gave us the universe or the absolute or the infinite; but, in his own larger language, a local habitation and a name. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed..."
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad? mathematicians go mad. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Half a truth is better than no politics."
Half a truth is better than no politics. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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