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Much Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
- Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it…
- What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in…
- It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
- Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
- A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
- Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.
- I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did…
- There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really…
- The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many…
- Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally…
- The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the…
- It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.
- How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it...
- I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that…
- When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is)…
- 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…
- The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he…
- Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to…
- Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it…
- I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful…
- The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much…
- How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small…
- Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
- It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
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