All government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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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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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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