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Large Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
- Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure…
- A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
- The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe…
- Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold ... that is, in large quantities.
- The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose…
- The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences…
- 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…
- How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own…
- if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
More Large Quotes
- The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us. — Julian Assange
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. — 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
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,… — Francis Bacon
- I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large -… — Julianna Baggott
- There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would… — Gamaliel Bailey
- I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. — Mikhail Bakunin
- The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely… — J. G. Ballard