Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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"A good novel tells you the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author."	Evil, Good, Honesty
"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."	Art, Desires, Insults
"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."	Art, Excellence
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."	Miscellaneous
"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."	Darkness, Light
"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."	Art, Beauty
"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."	Courage, Men
"Coincidences are spiritual puns."	Miscellaneous
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."	Age, Ambition, Courage
"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."	Democracy, Education, Evil
"Dogmatism does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought."	Miscellaneous
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know."	Desires, Education, Knowledge
"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."	Age, Courage, Men
"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."	Happiness, Joy, Life
"Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice."	Choice, Excellence, Freedom
"I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."	Lies
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."	Destiny, Fate, Lies
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."	Happiness, Joy
"If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God."	Life, Men, Women
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Adversity	Age	Ambition
Anger	Art	Beauty
Books	Choice	Courage
Darkness	Death	Democracy
Desires	Destiny	Difficulty
Doubt	Education	Equality
Evil	Excellence	Faith
Fate	Freedom	Friends
Good	Government	Happiness
History	Honesty	Hope
Humor	Insults	Intelligence
Joy	Justice	Knowledge
Laughter	Liberty	Lies
Life	Light	Love
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Monarchy	Nature	Poetry
Reading	Religion	School
Strength	Teaching	Time
Truth	Wants	War
Wisdom	Wishing	Women