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His Own Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 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…
- 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…
- It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant…
- Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses…
- Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously…
- No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or…
- These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
- Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it.…
- There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of…
- And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.
- A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
More His Own Quotes
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — Teresa of Avila
- Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility… — Irving Babbitt
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann
- A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. — Francis Bacon
- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he… — Walter Bagehot
- He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. — Abu Bakr