One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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