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All revolutions are doctrinal — such as the French one, or the one that introduced Christianity.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
He moves a mighty turban on the timeless houri's knees,
His turban that is woven of the sunset and the seas.
Lepanto (1911)
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
Tremendous Trifles (1909)
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.
If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
The Secret of Father Brown (1927)
Half the trouble about the modern man is that he is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
The Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton (1936)
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
Quentin Lauer (1992)
The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.
The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)
Tyranny over a man is not tyranny: it is rebellion, for man is royal.
Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
A Utopia of Usurers (1917)
I object to a quarrel because it always interrupts an argument.
Magic: A Fantastic Comedy (1913)
There is nothing so certain to lead to inequality as identity.
They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.
The Poet and the Lunatics (1929)
The simplification of anything is always sensational.
Varied Types (1903)
Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.
Utopia of Usurers (1917)
All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
The Dagger with Wings (1926)