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"My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober'."
- G. K. Chesterton, More quotation on Patriotism. |
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"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
- G. K. Chesterton, More quotation on Books. |
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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."
- G. K. Chesterton. |
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"I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."
- G. K. Chesterton. |
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"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."
- G. K. Chesterton, More quotation on Success. |
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"Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive."
- G. K. Chesterton, More quotation on Journalism. |
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"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
- G. K. Chesterton, More quotation on Music. |
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"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
- G. K. Chesterton, More quotation on Poetry. |
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"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."
- G. K. Chesterton. |
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"There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob."
- G. K. Chesterton, "Heretics", 1905. |