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Long Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
- How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
- Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
- Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and…
- My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it…
- Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is…
- Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home;…
- A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So…
- It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear…
- Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
- "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ...…
- It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour,…
- Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the…
- When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
- A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are…
- So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud…
- Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery…
- As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough…
- Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
- It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand…
- 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…
- If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward…
- I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
- I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance,…
- One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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