Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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