The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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 cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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