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A good man's work is effected...

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

When it wishes anything done ...

When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Daybreak is a never-ending gl...

Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

. . . For friendship implies ...

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is not really any coura...

There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Mysticism keeps mankind sane....

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

All men thirst to confess the...

All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Of all modern notions, the wo...

Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

...I will praise the English ...

...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Altruists, with thin, weak vo...

Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Evil always wins through the ...

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Only man can be absurd: for o...

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

IF we desire European civiliz...

IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their peril is ultimately unreal. And if we wish to exalt the outcast and the crucified, we shall rather wish to think that a veritable God was crucified, rather than a mere sage or hero. Above all, if we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules and clear dogmas. The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is only one thing certa...

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Art is born when the temporar...

Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The secularists have not wrec...

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The great ideals of the past ...

The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Modern broad-mindedness benef...

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Pride consists in a man makin...

Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A sober man may become a drun...

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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