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He Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
- A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be…
- The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was…
- We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
- The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
- A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man…
- Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
More He Quotes
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle