Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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There 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.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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