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Too Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
- Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and…
- For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
- Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
- Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.
- Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure…
- The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces…
- Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.
- The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.
- In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no…
- 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 vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless…
- People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils…
- The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on…
- Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it…
- The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might…
- We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.
- The noble temptation to see too much in everything.
- Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we…
- Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.
- I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance,…
- A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be…
- There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
- The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt;…
- If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear…
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