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Should Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
- The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should…
- Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
- A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of…
- It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a…
- Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol,…
- The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the…
- 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;…
- 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…
- I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to…
- There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
- Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody…
- If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.
- There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where…
- 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…
- If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse
- Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in…
- ...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in…
- I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a…
- Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent…
- Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every…
- Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.
- Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
- [V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and…
- We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I… — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe