A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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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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