There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
G. K. CHESTERTONA really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTONHow you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
G. K. CHESTERTONI have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
G. K. CHESTERTONAgnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
G. K. CHESTERTONLying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
G. K. CHESTERTON[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
G. K. CHESTERTONTradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
G. K. CHESTERTONIt isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTONArt, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. CHESTERTONGratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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