Quotes about G.k. chesterton

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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction — for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact — it is actually our truisms that are untrue.
Free verse is like free love — it is a contradiction in terms.
You say you are a poet of law — I saw you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero — but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules — it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.
Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many ti — for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
The criminal is the creative artist — the detective only the critic.
The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past — and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary.
We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame anima — following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.
We are in this fairyland on sufferance — it is not for us to quarrel with the conditions under which we enjoy this wild vision of the world.
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician t — two is two thousand times one.
He understood (what so many fautlessly polite people do not understand) that a stiff apology is a second insult. He unde — he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes — and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.
If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language — one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it.
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump — you may be freeing him from being a camel.
We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are in dang — but these are too humble to be convinced.
It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos — for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.
What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles — it was a miraculous world.
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right — it is the ideal American who is all wrong.