The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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