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Best Really Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I…
- 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…
- But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which…
- Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
- I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under…
- Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it…
- Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously…
- The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of…
- Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
- We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain…
- The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences…
- 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…
- The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
- Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give…
- Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not…
- Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If…
- The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as…
- If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development,…
- I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of…
- That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was…
- She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.
- The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.
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