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QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Quotes By author - Starting with G - Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are 116 quotes for the author Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Subject:  Argument & Debate   
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Subject:  Leadership   
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

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

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

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

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

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

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

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