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title: "28 Has beens Quotes By Gilbert K. Chesterton"
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> [A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/a-man-can-never-quite-understand-a-boy-even-when-he-has-been-a-boy/)

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> [Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/every-heresy-has-been-an-effort-to-narrow-the-church/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/gratitude-produced-the-most-purely-joyful-moments-that-have-been/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/we-have-had-no-good-comic-operas-of-late-because-the-real-world-has/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/is-there-anyone-who-will-maintain-that-the-party-system-could-have/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/for-good-or-evil-a-line-has-been-passed-in-our-political-history-and/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/every-one-of-the-great-revolutionists-from-isaiah-to-shelley-have-2/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/boyhood-is-a-most-complex-and-incomprehensible-thing-even-when-one/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-human-race-to-which-so-many-of-my-readers-belong-has-been-playing-2/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/if-the-common-man-in-the-past-had-a-grave-respect-for-property-it-may/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-mind-moves-by-instincts-associations-and-premonitions-and-not-by/)

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> [The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-whole-curse-of-the-last-century-has-been-what-is-called-the-swing/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-theory-of-free-speech-that-truth-is-so-much-larger-and-stranger/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-modern-world-has-far-too-little-understanding-of-the-art-of/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/it-is-not-merely-true-that-a-creed-unites-men-nay-a-difference-of/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/a-man-was-meant-to-be-doubtful-about-himself-but-undoubting-about-the-2/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/i-am-myself-so-exceedingly-nordic-as-far-as-physical-constitution-is/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-last-few-decades-have-been-marked-by-a-special-cultivation-of-the/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/you-ve-got-that-eternal-idiotic-idea-that-if-anarchy-came-it-would/)

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> [The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-modern-world-is-not-evil-in-some-ways-the-modern-world-is-far-too-2/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/for-they-capitalists-hold-as-their-chief-heresy-in-a-coarser-form-the/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [Now it has appeared to me unfair that humanity should be engaged perpetually in calling all those things bad which have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/now-it-has-appeared-to-me-unfair-that-humanity-should-be-engaged/)

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> [The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-only-thing-that-has-kept-the-race-of-men-from-the-mad-extremes-of/)

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> [The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-modern-world-is-full-of-the-old-christian-virtues-gone-mad-the/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-great-ideals-of-the-past-failed-not-by-being-outlived-which-must/)

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> [The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-old-idea-that-the-joke-was-not-good-enough-for-the-company-has/)

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> [There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/there-have-been-household-gods-and-household-saints-and-household/)

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> [It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/it-has-been-left-to-the-last-christians-or-rather-to-the-first/)

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## Other authors on Has beens

## More by Gilbert K. Chesterton

> [The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-aim-of-good-prose-words-is-to-mean-what-they-say-the-aim-of-good/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

> [Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/youth-is-always-too-serious-and-just-now-it-is-too-serious-about/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

> [Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/tradition-does-not-mean-a-dead-town-it-does-not-mean-that-the-living/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

> [It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/it-is-shorter-to-state-the-things-forbidden-than-the-things-permitted/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

> [Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/everyone-seems-to-assume-that-the-unscrupulous-parts-of-journalism/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

> [For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/for-scotland-has-a-double-dose-of-the-poison-called-heredity-the/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

> [Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/faith-is-always-at-a-disadvantage-it-is-a-perpetually-defeated-thing/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

> [A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/a-building-is-akin-to-dogma-it-is-insolent-like-dogma-whether-or-no/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

> [The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-triangle-of-truisms-of-father-mother-and-child-cannot-be/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

> [Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/criticism-is-only-words-about-words-and-of-what-use-are-words-about/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

> [What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/what-we-suffer-from-today-is-humility-in-the-wrong-place-the-old/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

> [Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/plato-was-only-a-bernard-shaw-who-unfortunately-made-his-jokes-in/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

> [The word good has many meanings...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-word-good-has-many-meanings/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

> [Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/music-with-dinner-is-an-insult-both-to-the-cook-and-the-violinist/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

> [Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/eugenics-asserts-that-all-men-must-be-so-stupid-that-they-cannot/)

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