Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. CHESTERTONFairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
G. K. CHESTERTONIdolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
G. K. CHESTERTONMoral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
G. K. CHESTERTONBeing a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
G. K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTONA really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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. CHESTERTONOne sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G. K. CHESTERTONJesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
G. K. CHESTERTONAgnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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