When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLaughter 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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