Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONPeople 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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