G. K. Chesterton Quotes

• Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
  -- (The Man Who Was Thursday, 1908)
• Truth is sacred and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
  
• We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
• Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
• You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.
• Half a truth is better than no politics.
• To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
• Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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