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Simplicity Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little…
- Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and…
- To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
- To be simple is the best thing in the world.
- Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.
- The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
- There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
More Simplicity Quotes
- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- I always go for simplicity. — David Bailey
- Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. — Philip James Bailey
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac
- Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. — Henry Adams
- It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. — Amelia Barr
- We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry
- Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. — Christian Nestell Bovee