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Letter "G" » G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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«A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: `Of course I do not like green cheese: I am very fond of brown sherry.'»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
brown, browns, cheese, cheeses, contemporary, fond, green, reads, sherry, The Contemporary
«Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Compromise
| Keywords:
loaf, loafed, loafing, loaf of bread, statesmen
«The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul»
«Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.»
«Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
beach, leaf, On the Beach, pebble
«I believe in getting into hot water - it helps keep you clean.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
clean, cleaned up, cleanest, clean out, clean up, getting, helps, hot, hotter, hot water, In Hot Water, make clean, water
«I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. [On his college registration experience]»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Architecture
| Keywords:
arrived, go into, planning, registration, signed
«The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.»
«The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.»
«To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.»
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