People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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