G.K. Chesterton Quotes on humor (2024)

G.K. Chesterton

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• G.K. Chesterton

  But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

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  I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

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  The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

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  .. The primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

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  The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.

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  The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

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  It will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

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  You say you are a poet of law; I saw you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden

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  An artist is identical with an anarchist,' he cried. 'You might transpose the words anywhere. An anarchist is an artist. The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. He sees how much more valuable is one burst of blazing light, one peal of perfect thunder, than the mere common bodies of a few shapeless policemen. An artist disregards all governments, abolishes all conventions. The poet delights in disorder only. If it were not so, the most poetical thing in the world would be the Underground Railway.''So it is,' said Mr. Syme.'Nonsense!' said Gregory, who was very rational when any one else attempted paradox.

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  I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

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  The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

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  Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

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  She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

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  [The materialist] thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think [the materialist] a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.

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  The silly sentimentalists of the French Revolution talked of the Rights of Man! We hate Rights as we hate Wrongs. We have abolished Right and Wrong. And Right and Left, said Syme with a simple eagerness, I hope you will abolish them too. They are much more troublesome to me.

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