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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Quote #1

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Quote #2

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Quote #3

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Quote #4

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Quote #5

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Quote #6

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Quote #7

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Quote #8

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life. -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Quote #9

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Quote #10

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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