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title: "83 Ifs Quotes By Gilbert K. Chesterton"
description: "83 Ifs quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton. Plus more from Gilbert K. Chesterton and more Ifs sayings from other authors."
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> [If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/if-it-s-worth-doing-it-s-worth-doing-badly-on-not-perfectionism-to/)

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> [Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/being-a-success-at-work-is-not-worth-it-if-it-means-being-a-failure/)

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> [If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/if-a-man-does-not-talk-to-himself-it-is-because-he-is-not-worth/)

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> [If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/if-we-could-destroy-custom-at-a-blow-and-see-the-stars-as-a-child/)

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> [All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/all-good-men-are-international-nearly-all-bad-men-are-cosmopolitan-if/)

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> [If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/if-a-man-only-likes-victory-he-must-always-come-late-for-the-battle/)

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> [We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/we-can-be-almost-certain-of-being-wrong-about-the-future-if-we-are/)

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> [If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/if-the-apple-hit-newton-s-nose-newton-s-nose-hit-the-apple/)

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> [I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/i-do-not-believe-that-any-human-being-is-fundamentally-happier-for/)

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> [Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/children-feel-the-whiteness-of-the-lily-with-a-graphic-and-passionate/)

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> [If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/if-the-world-grows-to-worldly-it-can-be-rebuked-by-the-church-but-if/)

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> ['As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/as-you-have-made-your-bed-so-you-must-lie-on-it-which-again-is-simply/)

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> [A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/a-man-imagines-a-happy-marriage-as-a-marriage-of-love-even-if-he/)

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> [The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-aesthete-aims-at-harmony-rather-than-beauty-if-his-hair-does-not/)

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> [You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/you-can-free-things-from-alien-or-accidental-laws-but-not-from-the/)

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> [If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/if-christianity-should-happen-to-be-true-that-is-to-say-if-its-god-is/)

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> [But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/but-a-somewhat-more-liberal-and-sympathetic-examination-of-mankind/)

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> [That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/that-all-war-is-physically-frightful-is-obvious-but-if-that-were-a/)

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> [We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/we-are-always-giving-foreign-names-to-very-native-things-if-there-is/)

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> [No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/no-sane-person-i-hope-would-accuse-me-of-saying-that-every/)

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> [There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/there-is-always-in-the-healthy-mind-an-obscure-prompting-that/)

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> [Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/blasphemy-is-an-artistic-effect-because-blasphemy-depends-upon-a/)

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> [A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/a-fairly-clear-line-separated-advertisement-from-art-the-first-effect/)

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> [When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/when-we-look-upon-lives-so-human-and-yet-so-small-we-feel-as-if-we/)

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> [I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/i-do-not-know-much-about-mohammed-or-mohammedanism-i-do-not-take-the/)

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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 great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-great-intellectual-tradition-that-comes-down-to-us-from-the-past/)

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> ["The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-universe-repeats-itself-with-the-possible-exception-of-history-of/)

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> [...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/i-will-praise-the-english-climate-till-i-die-even-if-i-die-of-the/)

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> [Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/now-among-the-heresies-that-are-spoken-in-this-matter-is-the-habit-of/)

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> [Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/tradition-is-only-democracy-extended-through-time-it-may-be-defined/)

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> [The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-average-man-votes-below-himself-he-votes-with-half-a-mind-or-a/)

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> [How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/how-much-larger-your-life-would-be-if-you-were-smaller-in-it/)

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> [If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/if-man-is-not-the-image-of-god-then-he-is-a-disease-of-the-dust/)

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> [If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/if-i-did-not-believe-in-god-i-should-still-want-my-doctor-my-lawyer/)

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> [Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/thinking-means-connecting-things-and-stops-if-they-cannot-be-connected/)

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> [You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/you-ll-never-find-the-solution-if-you-don-t-see-the-problem/)

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> [If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/if-there-is-one-thing-worse-than-the-modern-weakening-of-major-morals/)

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> [If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/if-prosperity-is-regarded-as-the-reward-of-virtue-it-will-be-regarded/)

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> [If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/if-you-spell-a-word-wrong-you-have-some-temptation-to-think-it-wrong/)

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## Other authors on Ifs

## 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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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

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> [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/)

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> [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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