Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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