Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
G. K. CHESTERTONTradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
G. K. CHESTERTONAll men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTONExactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
G. K. CHESTERTONI 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. CHESTERTONDoing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
G. K. CHESTERTONLying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
G. K. CHESTERTONVariability 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”.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
G. K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
G. K. CHESTERTONAmerica is the only country ever founded on a creed.
G. K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
G. K. CHESTERTONTo have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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