Wisdom Quotes
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G. K. Chesterton Quotes

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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

- G. K. Chesterton

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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.

- G. K. Chesterton

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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

- G. K. Chesterton

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The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.

- G. K. Chesterton

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The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

- G. K. Chesterton

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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

- G. K. Chesterton

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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

- G. K. Chesterton

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I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

- G. K. Chesterton

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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

- G. K. Chesterton

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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity.

- G. K. Chesterton

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

- G. K. Chesterton

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The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

- G. K. Chesterton

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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."

- G. K. Chesterton

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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

- G. K. Chesterton

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