The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. CHESTERTONI 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.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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