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G. E. Lessing
One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
G. Gordon Liddy
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
G. H. Hardy
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. K. Chesterton
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has alwa
G. K. Chesterton
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
G. K. Chesterton
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
G. K. Chesterton
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
G. K. Chesterton
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
G. K. Chesterton
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits.
G. K. Chesterton
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
G. K. Chesterton
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
G. K. Chesterton
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
G. K. Chesterton
All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
G. K. Chesterton
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
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
G. K. Chesterton
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. Chesterton
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
G. K. Chesterton
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. Chesterton
The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
G. K. Chesterton
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Quotes are sorted in alphabetical order by the authors first name.
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G. E. Lessing
One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
G. Gordon Liddy
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
G. H. Hardy
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. K. Chesterton
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has alwa
G. K. Chesterton
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
G. K. Chesterton
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
G. K. Chesterton
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
G. K. Chesterton
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
G. K. Chesterton
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits.
G. K. Chesterton
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
G. K. Chesterton
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
G. K. Chesterton
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
G. K. Chesterton
All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
G. K. Chesterton
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
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
G. K. Chesterton
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. Chesterton
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
G. K. Chesterton
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. Chesterton
The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
G. K. Chesterton
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26]