Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThanks are the highest form of thought.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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 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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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