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Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as o...
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums....
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation...
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war....
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I ...
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience ...
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is...
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not be...
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the...
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means gover...
A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be c...
There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for...
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dign...
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese....
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up....
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them...
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do beli...
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the pro...
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They nev...
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself ...
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the...
It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should ...
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost....
The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and...
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found...
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms us...
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that grat...
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbo...
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies prob...
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and t...
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly....
Materialists and madmen never have doubts....
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it....
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to liv...
I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean....
Coincidences are spiritual puns....
A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you t...
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody y...
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their pro...
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it....
Dogmatism does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought....