Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe test of happiness is gratitude.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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