Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

English - Writer | May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

WrongMeanSomethingLikeMeansArc

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

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DoubtCreedBuddhism

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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GoodTruthHeroBadUsNovel

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

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SportsGolfWayExpensivePlaying

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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EducationYouKnowWantSomething

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

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OrganizationSayTrueAlwaysAlmost

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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MoneyStupidEnoughWantCleverGet

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

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DifferenceInchBetweenChamberCell

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

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HappyYouDrinkNeverMiserable

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

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MiracleOrderThingsWholePresume

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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RichSometimesPoorAlwaysBeing

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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MindMouthOpeningSomethingSolid

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