Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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