A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
G. K. CHESTERTONA dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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. CHESTERTONWe are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. CHESTERTONChristianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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. CHESTERTONUnless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
G. K. CHESTERTONThese are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
G. K. CHESTERTONNo man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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. CHESTERTONThe thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTONA thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
G. K. CHESTERTONOne sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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