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title: "52 May Quotes By Gilbert K. Chesterton"
description: "52 May quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton. Plus more from Gilbert K. Chesterton and more May sayings from other authors."
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> [One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/one-may-understand-the-cosmos-but-never-the-ego-the-self-is-more/)

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> [The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-great-saint-may-be-said-to-mix-all-his-thoughts-with-thanks-all/)

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> [Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/democracy-is-like-blowing-your-nose-you-may-not-do-it-well-but-it-s/)

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> [What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/what-people-call-impartiality-may-simply-mean-indifference-and-what/)

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> [I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/i-may-not-practice-what-i-preach-but-god-forbid-i-should-preach-what/)

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> [Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/ivory-may-not-be-so-white-as-snow-but-the-whole-arctic-continent-does/)

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> [What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/what-life-and-death-may-be-to-a-turkey-is-not-my-business-but-the/)

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> [Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/free-verse-you-may-as-well-call-sleeping-in-a-ditch-free-architecture/)

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> [A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/a-man-looking-at-a-hippopotamus-may-sometimes-be-tempted-to-regard-a/)

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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/)

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

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> [It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/it-may-not-be-automatic-necessity-that-makes-all-daisies-alike-it-may/)

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> [We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/we-all-know-that-the-divine-glory-of-the-ego-is-socially-a-great/)

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> [If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/if-i-think-the-universe-is-triangular-and-you-think-it-is-square/)

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> [Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/life-is-serious-all-the-time-but-living-cannot-be-you-may-have-all/)

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> [Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/now-there-is-any-amount-of-this-nonsense-cropping-up-among-american/)

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> [ Science only means knowledge; and for \[Greek\] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/science-only-means-knowledge-and-for-greek-ancients-it-did-only-mean/)

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> [So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/so-far-as-a-man-may-be-proud-of-a-religion-rooted-in-humility-i-am/)

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> [At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, "Life is not worth living." We regard it as we regard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/at-any-innocent-tea-table-we-may-easily-hear-a-man-say-life-is-not/)

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> [ \[Consider\] a fence or gate erected across a road\] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/consider-a-fence-or-gate-erected-across-a-road-the-more-modern-type/)

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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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> [No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/no-one-can-understand-paris-and-its-history-who-does-not-understand/)

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> [Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/bowing-down-in-blind-credulity-as-is-my-custom-before-mere-authority/)

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> [Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/catholicism-is-not-ritualism-it-may-in-the-future-be-fighting-some/)

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> [You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/you-may-think-a-crime-horrible-because-you-could-never-commit-it-i/)

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> [Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/whatever-else-we-may-say-of-our-own-age-for-good-or-evil-nobody-is/)

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> [Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/catholic-doctrine-and-discipline-may-be-walls-but-they-are-the-walls/)

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> [A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/a-sober-man-may-become-a-drunkard-through-being-a-coward-a-brave-man/)

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> [The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-philosophy-of-this-world-may-be-founded-on-facts-but-its-business/)

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> [Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/bigotry-may-be-roughly-defined-as-the-anger-of-men-who-have-no/)

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> [Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/every-work-of-art-has-one-indispensable-mark-the-center-of-it-is/)

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> [Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/whatever-else-may-be-said-of-man-this-one-thing-is-clear-he-is-not/)

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> [A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/a-catholic-is-a-person-who-has-plucked-up-courage-to-face-the/)

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> [Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/do-not-free-a-camel-of-the-burden-of-his-hump-you-may-be-freeing-him/)

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> [When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/when-once-you-have-got-hold-of-a-vulgar-joke-you-may-be-certain-that/)

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> [The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-repetition-in-nature-may-not-be-a-mere-recurrence-it-may-be-a/)

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> [Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/thieves-respect-property-they-merely-wish-the-property-to-become/)

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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/)

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> [A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/a-modern-man-may-disapprove-of-some-of-his-sweeping-reforms-and/)

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> [The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-true-savage-is-a-slave-and-is-always-talking-about-what-he-must/)

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## Other authors on May

## 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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