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G. K. Chesterton Quotes

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

Author: G. K. Chesterton (Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: look up, parade, paraded, parading, rain, rainbow, rains, rain down

«The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.»

Author: G. K. Chesterton (Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Education | Keywords: commonsense, common people, compulsory, Compulsory education, deprive, People of

«We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.»

Author: G. K. Chesterton (Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: all in, boat, loyalties, loyalty, other a, owe, sea, stormiest, stormy, terrible

«There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.»

Author: G. K. Chesterton (Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: between, by inches, cell, chamber, chambering, cushion, cushioned, cushions, difference, inch, inched, inching, pad, padded, pads, The Cell

«Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.»

Author: G. K. Chesterton (Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Adulthood, Children | Keywords: adults, innocent, mercy, prefer, wicked

«Coincidences are spiritual puns.»

Author: G. K. Chesterton (Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: coincidences, punning, Puns, spiritual, spiritual being

«Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.»

Author: G. K. Chesterton (Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Aristocracy, Democracy | Keywords: aristocracies, aristocracy, badly, democracy, educated, uneducated

«Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.»