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- "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
- G. K. Chesterton
- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- G. K. Chesterton
- An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
- G. K. Chesterton
- Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
- G. K. Chesterton
- By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
- G. K. Chesterton
- Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
- G. K. Chesterton
- Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
- G. K. Chesterton
- Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
- G. K. Chesterton
- I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
- G. K. Chesterton
- 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
- I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
- G. K. Chesterton
- If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
- G. K. Chesterton
- 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
- Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
- G. K. Chesterton
- Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
- G. K. Chesterton
- Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
- G. K. Chesterton
- Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
- G. K. Chesterton
- The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
- G. K. Chesterton
- The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- G. K. Chesterton
- The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
- G. K. Chesterton
- The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
- G. 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.
- G. K. Chesterton
- To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- G. K. Chesterton
- You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- G. K. Chesterton
- There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
- G. K. Chesterton, "Heretics", 1905
- All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
- G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)
- Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
- G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)
- The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
- G. K. Chesterton, Flying Inn (1914)
- I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
- G. K. Chesterton, Generally Speaking, Chapter 20, 1929
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
- G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905)
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