All Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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 the age of the great epics is past.
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The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
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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 a cliff until she has fallen.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
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Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
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