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Some Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
- Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
- I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is…
- I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to…
- The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions;…
- The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
- There are some desires that are not desirable.
- Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I…
- There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages:…
- 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 should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
- The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.
- The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries,…
- 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…
- The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When…
- The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other…
- The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and…
- The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare…
- All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of…
- 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…
- In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right…
- Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.
- Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
- Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and…
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- 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
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong