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Gilbert K. ChestertonThe Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMan is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
Gilbert K. ChestertonLiterature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMy life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMarriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses
Gilbert K. ChestertonOne of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
Gilbert K. ChestertonSome men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRomance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe true object of human life is play.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton