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Quite Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
- It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism…
- 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 real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The…
- A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will…
- Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can…
- 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…
- But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.
- Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never…
- The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist…
- A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
- I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of…
- I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things…
- It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend…
- The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of…
- The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is…
More Quite Quotes
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit… — David Attenborough
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden