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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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 to read.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The simplification of anything is always sensational.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A yawn is a silent shout.
Written by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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