Best Gilbert K. Chesterton Lines
- Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is… Always Talk
- White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints… Absence
- It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a… Absurd
- I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up… Acting
- Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and… Age
- Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it… Alone
- The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere… Aquariums
- Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable… All
- What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in… Affects
- Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative. All
- It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian. Atheist
- There is no bigot like the atheist. Atheist
- The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism. Anything Except
- Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of… Accident
- There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go,… Arguable
- I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad… Any
- Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred. Always Sacred
- Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist. Atheist
- A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man. Almost Unknown
- I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is… Always Attacks
- The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people… Desperate
- All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing. All
- We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera. Any
- When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any. Any
- Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told. Aesthetes
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