Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A yawn is a silent shout.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Biography
Type: Writer
Nationality: English
Born: May 29, 1874
Died: June 14, 1936

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W. S. Gilbert

Showing quotations 1 to 6 of 6 total If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance. W. S. GilbertMerely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. W. S. GilbertNo one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast. W. S. GilbertThings are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream. W. S. GilbertWhen everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody. W. S. GilbertMy object all sublime I shall achieve in time... W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, 1885

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W. S. Gilbert

Showing quotations 1 to 6 of 6 total If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance. W. S. GilbertMerely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. W. S. GilbertNo one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast. W. S. GilbertThings are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream. W. S. GilbertWhen everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody. W. S. GilbertMy object all sublime I shall achieve in time... W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, 1885

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Gilbert Parker

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But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.
Gilbert Parker

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
Gilbert Parker

Every shot that kills ricochets.
Gilbert Parker

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.
Gilbert Parker

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.
Gilbert Parker

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
Gilbert Parker

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
Gilbert Parker

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
Gilbert Parker

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
Gilbert Parker

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
Gilbert Parker

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
Gilbert Parker

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
Gilbert Parker

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
Gilbert Parker

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
Gilbert Parker

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.
Gilbert Parker

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
Gilbert Parker

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
Gilbert Parker

There is no influence like the influence of habit.
Gilbert Parker

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
Gilbert Parker

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.
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Type: Politician
Nationality: British
Born: November 23, 1862
Died: September 6, 1932

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