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Book Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book…
- Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
- 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…
- The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of…
- You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
- Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the…
- The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did…
- There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when…
- Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it…
- But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which…
- But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.
- You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and…
- The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.
- People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books…
- There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred…
- For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their…
- I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance,…
- It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend…
- The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all…
- St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page…
- Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.
- Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type,…
- I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.
More Book Quotes
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- I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood