Quotes about Gilbert K Chesterton

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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A yawn is a silent shout.

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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be...

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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root...

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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over......

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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is...

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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable...

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

#Gilbert K Chesterton