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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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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 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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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