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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONPeople generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Modern 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.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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