Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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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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