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Else Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If…
- 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…
- I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even…
- Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.
- Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little…
- The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living…
- There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where…
- Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the…
- Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a…
- While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who…
- The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he…
- The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and…
- God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
- Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.
- Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of…
- Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
- I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
- [Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a…
More Else Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- 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
- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. — Erma Bombeck
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho