Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDipsomaniac 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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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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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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