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Quotes from Tremendous Trifles — G. K. Chesterton

1874–1936 England

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The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

Tremendous Trifles (1909)

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

Tremendous Trifles (1909)

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Tremendous Trifles (1909)

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Tremendous Trifles (1955)

But I said that I opened my intellect as I opened my mouth, in order to shut it again on something solid.

Tremendous Trifles (1909)

[A]rt is limitation. [...] The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Tremendous Trifles (1909)

Attribution

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