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Quotes from All Things Considered — G. K. Chesterton

1874–1936 England

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12 quotes

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

All Things Considered (1908)

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

All Things Considered (1908)

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

All Things Considered (1908)

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

All Things Considered (1908)

It is incomprehensible to me that any thinker can calmly call himself a modernist; he might as well call himself a Thursdayite.

All Things Considered (1908)

It is so easy to be solemn; it is so hard to be frivolous.

All Things Considered (1908)

All injustice begins in the mind. And anomalies accustom the mind to the idea of unreason and untruth.

All Things Considered (1908)

Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

All Things Considered (1908)

I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them to keep clear of this book.

All Things Considered (1908)

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

All Things Considered (1908)

It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

All Things Considered (1908)

For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.

All Things Considered (1908)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: G. K. Chesterton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.