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Certainly Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
- When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that…
- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is…
- Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly…
- Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never…
- [Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see…
- Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving…
- In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do…
- The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were…
- The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and…
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- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. — Jane Austen
- There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. — Jane Austen
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- Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully. — Dan Aykroyd
- I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive. — Peter Ackroyd
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- While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist. — Michele Bachmann
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- Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. — Francis Bacon
- I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we… — James A. Baldwin