31th Annual Chesterton Conference

31th Annual Chesterton Conference
Aug. 2-4, 2012, at the Silver Legacy Hotel (and Casino) in Reno, Nevada.

Monday, February 9, 2009

February 18th Meeting to Discuss GKC Quotes


I've seen it said on several Chesterton sites, that Chesterton is the most quoted author of the 20th Century. I guess you'd have to expect that on a site devoted to Chesterton. Freely copying from the American Chesterton Society's web site then, here are a few quotes for your review:


Timeless Truths

"Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before."
- Tremendous Trifles

"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."
- ILN, 4/19/30


"I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event."
- ILN, 10/7/16


"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."
-Chapter 5, What's Wrong With The World, 1910
"These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own."
-ILN 8-23-28


"There are some desires that are not desirable."
- Orthodoxy

"I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it."
- ILN 8/4/06


"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
- ILN, 5/5/28

"The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say."
- Daily News.4-22-05


"Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative."
-"Charles II" Twelve Types

"If there were no God, there would be no atheists."
Where All Roads Lead

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