Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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