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Sometimes Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
- The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
- Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
- Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within,…
- I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful…
- Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold ... that is, in large quantities.
- Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.
- [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…
- It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
- A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with…
- The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can…
- The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without…
- I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls…
- For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven,…
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I… — Tom Arnold
- It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk… — Marcel Achard
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just… — Dave Attell
- The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. — Chinua Achebe
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with… — Richard Bach