These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDaybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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