Gilbert K. Chesterton

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To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

money

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

music

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

poetry

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

poetry

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 that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

politics

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

politics

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

power

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

power

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

religion

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

religion

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