One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONParadox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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