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The wise old fairy tales neve...

The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Joy, which was the small publ...

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Somehow one can never manage ...

Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The modern city is ugly not b...

The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The person who is really in r...

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A man imagines a happy marria...

A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I left the fairy tales lying ...

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

They say travel broadens the ...

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Women have a thirst for order...

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is still bad taste to be a...

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is true that I am of an ol...

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is quite an old-fashioned ...

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There should be a burnished t...

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Religious unity can look like...

Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

What we call emancipation is ...

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Making the landlord and the t...

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The power which makes a man a...

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The average businessman began...

The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine ...

Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I do not know much about Moha...

I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to the worship of idols; that the praises of polytheism would not be loudly sung; that the character of Mohammed would not be subjected to anything resembling hatred and derision; and that the great modern doctrine of the unimportance of religion would not be needlessly emphasised.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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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....