There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONVery few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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