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Lasts Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as…
- The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go…
- For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
- I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to…
- Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody…
- It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To…
- In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right…
- This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy…
- If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.
- You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people…
- Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is…
- He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It…
- Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common…
- I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it…
- The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste,…
More Lasts Quotes
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Do every act of your life as if it were your last. — Marcus Aurelius
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
- And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. — Marcus Aurelius
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo