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Ten Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to…
- Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was…
- Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses…
- A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So…
- Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
- The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.
- Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.
- The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but,…
- He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It…
- For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their…
- If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
- A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man — the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms,…
- In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
- Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.
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- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. — Chinua Achebe
- Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of… — Jane Austen
- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
- The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. — Joan Baez
- I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough. — David Bailey
- Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am… — Tom Baker
- In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. — George Bancroft
- No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. — Henry Adams
- Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can… — Roseanne Barr