I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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