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All Quotes by author - Gilbert K. Chesterton

" A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. "

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

" All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. "

" 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. "

" All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. "

" A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying. "

" A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. "

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

" And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. "

" And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. "

" A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. "

" An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. "

" A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. "

" A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. "

" Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. "

" Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. "

" Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. "

" A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. "

" A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. "

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

" A yawn is a silent shout. "

" Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. "

" Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. "

" Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. "

" Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. "

" Coincidences are spiritual puns. "

" 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. "

" Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. "

" Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. "

" Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. "

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