One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONChastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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