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Wild Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and…
- 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…
- Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the…
- The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he…
- Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you.…
- The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was…
- The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
- We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.
- [Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
- We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals;…
- And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from…
- And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.
More Wild Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton
- I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about… — Lester Bangs
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it… — Francis Bacon
- I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and… — Christine Baranski
- For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb… — Edward Abbey