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Letter "G" » G. K. Chesterton Quotes
«We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.»
«No man knows he is young while he is young.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
have young, knows, No Man, while, young
«Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.»
«All government is an ugly necessity.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
government, necessity, ugliest, ugly
«The first of all democratic doctrines is that all men are interesting.»
«The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Books,
Mystery,
Nature,
Words
| Keywords:
arbitrariness, charm, describing, enchantment, fairy, spell, terms
«There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Eyes,
Heart
| Keywords:
go through
«Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.»
«St George he was for England, / And before he killed the dragon / He drank a pint of English ale / Out of an English flagon.»
«The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.»
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