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Strange Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.
- Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good…
- ...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the…
- Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
- A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
- Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
- What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one…
- 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…
- Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never…
- Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
- The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
- The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the…
- I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain…
- They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of…
- There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of…
- And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.
- Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.
- We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of…
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