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Littles Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
- Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little…
- Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.
- 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 real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The…
- Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers;…
- Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within,…
- I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It…
- We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world…
- The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on…
- 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…
- At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a…
- We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the…
- The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without…
- I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.
- 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…
- An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe…
- Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
- [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 Littles Quotes
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to… — Frank Abagnale
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's… — Rowan Atkinson