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Who Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling…
- There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
- No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
- A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
- A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
- Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to…
- There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book…
- A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
- We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
- Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
- People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
- Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
- The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
- A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man…
- Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two…
- Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps,…
- A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of…
More Who Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle