7 Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes on Character

Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotes on character

46. Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

57. It is always the secure who are humble.

80. We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

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105. Whatever the word 'great' means, Dickens was what it means.

108. A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

109. When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

140. Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.