Quotations From GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON

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  The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Boy," All Things Considered (1908).
• 2.

  Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. What's Wrong with the World, ch. 3 (1910).
• 3.

  Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. Professor de Worms, in The Man Who Was Thursday, ch. 14 (1908).
• 4.

  The mere brute pleasure of reading—the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. Quoted in Dudley Barker, G.K. Chesterton (1973).
• 5.

  I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "On Holland," Generally Speaking (1928).
  
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• 6.

  The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "Oxford from Without," All Things Considered (1908).
  
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• 7.

  The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. Orthodoxy, ch. 1 (1909).
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  Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. Orthodoxy, ch. 6 (1909).
  
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• 9.

  Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic," All Things Considered (1908).
  
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• 10.

  A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. New York Times (Nov. 21, 1930).