Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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There 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.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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