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I think the oddest thing about...

I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There have been household gods...

There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Over-civilization and barbaris...

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

By experts in poverty I do not...

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The modern city is ugly not be...

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

Self-denial is the test and de...

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A man imagines a happy marriag...

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

The whole pleasure of marriage...

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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

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

One of the chief uses of relig...

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Theology is only thought appli...

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Puritanism was an honourable m...

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

What life and death may be to ...

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Any one thinking of the Holy C...

Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The more we are proud that the...

The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The great majority of people w...

The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It's not that we don't have en...

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The whole truth is generally t...

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Truth is sacred; and if you te...

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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