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Results of search for Author: G. K. Chesterton - Page 3 of 8 Showing results 21 to 30 of 80 total quotations found.
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

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 (1874 - 1936)
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Results from Classic Quotes:

"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 (1874 - 1936)
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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Flying Inn (1914)
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Scandal of Father Brown (1935)
All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Defendant (1901)
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Defendant (1901)
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), What's Wrong With the World; p. 118
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The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Orthodoxy
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Heretics (1905)

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