And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
G. K. CHESTERTONAnd when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G. K. CHESTERTONBut 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.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
G. K. CHESTERTONNothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
G. K. CHESTERTONTo have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. CHESTERTONWithout education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. CHESTERTONI believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTONImpartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
G. K. CHESTERTONGod is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
G. K. CHESTERTON