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Letter "G" » G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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«I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.»
«Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.»
«The present condition of fame is merely fashion.»
«'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Country,
Speech
| Keywords:
desperate, mother country, My Country, patriot, Right or Wrong, sober
«You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Democracy,
Revolution
| Keywords:
establish
«Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.»
«When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?»
«You have weighed the stars in the balance, and grasped the skies in a span: / Take, if you must have answer, the word of a common man.»
«Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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Bravery
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toughness, vertebrate, vertebrates
«A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.»
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