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. CHESTERTONThere 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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