Quotes about G.k. chesterton

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Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox — that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly — the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a — I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden.
Thrift is poetic because it is creative — waste is unpoetic because it is waste.
The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock — but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.
A man cannot deserve adventures — he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
The pure modernist is merely a snob — he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt — they are forbidden to believe.
Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong — we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.
{We} have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule — rather we must crown the much more exceptional man who knows he can’t.