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They said that I should lose ...

They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Most modern freedom is at roo...

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Fallacies do not cease to be ...

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Even the moon is only poetica...

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Among the rich you will never...

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A naked moon stood in a naked...

A naked moon stood in a naked sky.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

He has come to the most dread...

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I like the Cyclostyle ink; it...

I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do. The startling wetness of water excites and intoxicates me: the fieriness of fire, the steeliness of steel, the unutterable muddiness of mud. It is just the same with people.... When we call a man "manly" or a woman "womanly" we touch the deepest philosophy.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I entertain a private suspici...

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We are passing into a social ...

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

No man should leave in the un...

No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

In the fairy tale, an incompr...

In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Only poor men get hanged. ...

Only poor men get hanged.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Your offer," he said, "is far...

Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets...

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Excuse me if I enjoy myself r...

Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Just at present you only see ...

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

In truth, there are only two ...

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is one thing to describe a...

It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is a law written in the...

There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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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....