I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
G. K. CHESTERTONI’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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