How To Use Chesterton In A Sentence
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Hilaire Belloc, J.K. Huysmans, G.K. Chesterton, and Evelyn Waugh (who quoted The Waste Land frequently) all made an initial reputation for nightmarish satire before retreating into a not always convincing nook of Catholicism.
Letters to the Editor
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. G.K. Chesterton
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. G K Chesterton
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Here, curiously enough, the Socialist and the sentimental democratic Catholic of the type of Chesterton sometimes join hands; both will tell you that dirtiness is healthy and natural and cleanliness is a mere fad or at best a luxury. [
The Road to Wigan Pier
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Later, at school in the fifties, G.K. Chesterton was very much in vogue.
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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G. K. Chesterton
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Ce livre, L'Univers de Chesterton, est fait pour tous ceux qui n'ont pas le temps de suivre dans les méandres de sa pensée capricieuse et exigeante pléonasme dirait-il sans doute le fantasque créateur de ce héros de polar qui est un petit prêtre à la vue basse Father Brown.
L'Univers de Chesterton
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Ce livre, L'univers de Chesterton, est fait pour tous ceux qui n'ont pas le temps de suivre dans les méandres de sa pensée capricieuse et exigeante pléonasme dirait-il sans doute le fantasque créateur de ce héros de polar qui est un petit prêtre à la vue basse Father Brown.
Chesterton et ses paradoxes
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To adapt G. K. Chesterton's advice to another public worthy: chuck it, Hockney.
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He went down to the bookmaker's in Chesterton Road to place a bet on the race.
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. G.K. Chesterton
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The story is a psychomachia - which is why sex is entirely absent: all the important characters are within Chesterton and therefore male.
Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses
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The academic ring is an honor bestowed upon senior students at Chesterton High School who have met a rigid set of academic and cocurricular criteria.
Chesterton Tribune
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The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. G.K. Chesterton
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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world. G.K. Chesterton
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(Like Chesterton, I alliterate too much; and for the same reason, which is that I will not knock off using the right word and seek a feeble substitute, merely because too many of the right words begin with the same letter of the alphabet.)
Quotha: A comment upon the procedures of the CBO
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. G. K. Chesterton
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Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. G.K. Chesterton
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The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. G.K. Chesterton
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He went down to the bookmaker's in Chesterton Road to place a bet on the race.
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The fact is we have in Mr. Chesterton the true product of the deboshed hapenny press ....
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. G.K. Chesterton
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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G. K. Chesterton
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. G.K. Chesterton
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I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease. G.K. Chesterton
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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world. G.K. Chesterton
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Chesterton observed long ago that we only blaspheme what we hold sacred.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. G. K. Chesterton
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Finally there is a selection of criticism from Chesterton to the editor herself followed by a chronology and selected bibliography.
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There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing. G.K. Chesterton
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The play is in some ways a difficult one: we are left wondering whether or not Chesterton believes in magic; if he does, then the conjurer need not have been so upset that he had gained so much power of a psychic nature; if he does not, then the conjurer was a clever fraud or a brilliant hypnotist.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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They realized that the store needed to evolve to meet the needs of modern consumers, and so in 1986, Chesterton's hometown five-and-dime metamorphosed into a craft store.
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Chesterton suggests them by queer novels and paradoxical essays; Shaw puts his ideas into the mouthpieces of those who are known as Shavian characters; he interprets his theories by the Stage, therefore his sermons reach tens of thousands who would not read him if he preached from a pulpit.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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According to Chesterton, dirtiness is merely a kind of discomfort and therefore ranks as self-mortification.
The Road to Wigan Pier
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Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. G.K. Chesterton
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I think when Chesterton wrote that, if someone were to actually say, "That is wicked," the Journalists would shuffle their feet in embarrassment, but generally not dispute the obvious truth.
Superversive: Quotha
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My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.". G.K. Chesterton
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Of this book Chesterton says 'the public has largely forgotten all the Newcomes except one, the Colonel who has taken his place with Don Quixote, Sir Roger de Coverley, Uncle
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. G.K. Chesterton
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So Chesterton's nation with the soul of a church has not closed down its whorehouses.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. G.K. Chesterton
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Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. G.K. Chesterton
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. G. K. Chesterton
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Without any hesitation for Chesterton, 'Pickwick Papers' is Dickens 'finest achievement, which is a pleasant enough problem if we happen to remember that he also wrote' David Copperfield. '
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world. G.K. Chesterton
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Ce livre, L'Univers de Chesterton, est fait pour tous ceux qui n'ont pas le temps de suivre dans les méandres de sa pensée capricieuse et exigeante pléonasme dirait-il sans doute le fantasque créateur de ce héros de polar qui est un petit prêtre à la vue basse Father Brown.
L'Univers de Chesterton
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Whoever wants "cleverality," whoever wants what Mr. Shaw and Mr. Chesterton supply so brilliantly and abundantly to the present generation, had best leave Johnson alone.
Dr. Johnson and His Circle
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The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. G.K. Chesterton
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. G.K. Chesterton
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Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. G.K. Chesterton
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Education is simply the soul of society as it passes from one generation to the next. G.K. Chesterton
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. G K Chesterton
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To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. G. K. Chesterton
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Rudyard Kipling finds a warm spot in Chesterton's heart, but he is a little too militaristic, which is exactly what he is not.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Chesterton said, “Every man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.”
"The Playboy and the Pope"
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. G.K. Chesterton
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The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. G.K. Chesterton
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I do not believe in fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in fate that falls on them unless they act. G.K. Chesterton
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Chesterton, mystique, mousquetaire de la plume, miroir redresseur de nos travers déformants, humoriste paradoxal et décapant, reste à redécouvrir.
Pour le réenchantement du monde - Une introduction à Chesterton
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Owning a castle is the ultimate cach é," says Andrew Hawkins, head of international property at Chesterton Humberts.
Challenges of Castle Ownership
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Ce livre, L'univers de Chesterton, est fait pour tous ceux qui n'ont pas le temps de suivre dans les méandres de sa pensée capricieuse et exigeante pléonasme dirait-il sans doute le fantasque créateur de ce héros de polar qui est un petit prêtre à la vue basse Father Brown.
Chesterton et ses paradoxes
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? G.K. Chesterton
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. G. K. Chesterton
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As Chesterton said, if you want to know what a culture holds sacred, just look at what it considers blasphemous.
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The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. G.K. Chesterton
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That even today a Democratic nominee speaks that way confirms G.K. Chesterton's belief that some political institutions are "parvenue by pedigree; they hand on vulgarity like a coat-of-arms.
Relaxation By Exhaustion
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. G.K. Chesterton
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Chesterton once observed that it was always perilous to talk politics with women because of the imminent danger that they would want to do something about it and not just go on jawing as men do.
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Chesterton was really saying by a comparison with the "illative sense" of Cardinal Newman.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. G.K. Chesterton
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My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.". G.K. Chesterton
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Education is simply the soul of society as it passes from one generation to the next. G.K. Chesterton
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. G. K. Chesterton
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The cityscape in this case is London; the three pastoralists are G.K. Chesterton in The Napoleon of Notting Hill, George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange; and I believe the three mythoi, in order, are Romance, Tragedy, and (surprise!)
Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses
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En sus obras, Chesterton acepta ese desafío: mirar la realidad con la sencillez de un niño, con asombro y agradecimiento.
El Apóstol del Sentido Común
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. G K Chesterton
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If the use of the grotesque was a strength of Browning (as Chesterton contends against other critics), so in the case of Thackeray that which some critics have held to be a weakness -- I mean his 'irrelevancy' -- is for our critic a strength.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Campbell a "modernizer" in religion during Chesterton's time--ed., in their almost too fastidious spirituality, admit divine sinlessness, which they cannot see even in their dreams.
Archive 2006-11-01
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The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. G.K. Chesterton
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Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. G.K. Chesterton