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He is in the clean and well-lit prison of one idea: he is sharpened to one painful point.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
He feels that nothing is perfect unless it is personal.
G K. Chesterton • The Everlasting Man (with linked TOC)
He is much too practical to be precise.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What I Saw in America
he is a poet in this real sense, that he has realised the meaning of every function he has performed.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Rupert Grant was a clever young fellow, but he had that tendency which youth and cleverness, when sharply combined, so often produce, a somewhat extravagant scepticism.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
The most important man on earth is the perfect man who is not there.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What's Wrong with the World
The command of Christ is impossible, but it is not insane; it is rather sanity preached to a planet of lunatics.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Perhaps the most thoroughly brilliant and typical man of this decade is Mr. Bernard Shaw.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.