Children Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

13 Children quotes by G.K. Chesterton

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Even in a modest set of 13 lines, Chesterton’s distinctive voice shines through, pairing gentle humor with keen observation of youthful wonder.

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“I earnestly hope that all children will spoil this book by painting the illustrations. I wanted to do this myself but the…

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“mankind have hitherto held the bond between man and woman so sacred, and the effect of it on the children so incalculable,…

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“Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on…

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“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear…

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“Of course sane people always thought the aim of marriage was the procreation of children to the glory of God or according…

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“Buddhism seeks after God with the largest conception it can find, the all-producing and all-absorbing One; Christianity seeks after God with the…

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“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always…

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“But when fundamentals are doubted, as at present, we must try to recover the candour and wonder of the child; the unspoilt…

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“Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not…

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“A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit…

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“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will…

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“A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting; a child always stands for the good militarism as against the…

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“A Second Childhood.” When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not…

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“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery…

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“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my…

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“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How…

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“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the…

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“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow…

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“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”

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“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.”

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“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected…

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“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,…

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“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act…

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“But in order that life should be a story or romance to us, it is necessary that a great part of it, at any…

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“Buddhism seeks after God with the largest conception it can find, the all-producing and all-absorbing One; Christianity seeks after God with the most elementary…

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“Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.”

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