Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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