We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
G. K. CHESTERTONThese are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. CHESTERTONJournalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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. CHESTERTONImpartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTONA 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.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. CHESTERTONThanks are the highest form of thought.
G. K. CHESTERTONAt the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTONA really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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