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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
A yawn is a silent shout.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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 room without books is like a body without a soul.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
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 man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.