It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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