Tag: G. K. Chesterton

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober.

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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

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There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

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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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