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I have myself a poetical enth...

I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Facts as facts do not always ...

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is often a mistake to comb...

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

People that insist upon drink...

People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Not only is suicide a sin, it...

Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Indeed the Book of Job avowed...

Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type, in the sense of a prophecy, of things speaking with authority. For when he who doubts can only say, ‘I do not understand,’ it is true that he who knows can only reply or repeat ‘You do not understand.’ And under that rebuke there is always a sudden hope in the heart; and the sense of something that would be worth understanding.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is cold anarchy to say tha...

It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Against a dark sky all flower...

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Were Patrick Henry to return ...

Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is a strange thing that ma...

It is a strange thing that many truly spiritual men, such as General Gordon, have actually spent some hours in speculating upon the precise location of the Garden of Eden. Most probably we are in Eden still. It is only our eyes that have changed.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We are like the penny, becaus...

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Nine times out of ten it is t...

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The danger of loss of faith i...

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We cannot fling ourselves int...

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Why should ANYTHING go right;...

Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Tea, although an OrientalIs a...

Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Nobody notices postmen, yet t...

Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Realism is simply Romanticism...

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The coziness between church a...

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I would look at the first cha...

I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....