“My country, right or wrong,” is a …
“My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying…
A good novel tells us the truth …
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells…
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly …
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.…
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the …
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Beware of no man more than yourself; …
Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
~…
By a curious confusion, many modern critics …
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece…
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while …
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Don’t ever take a fence down until …
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.…
Education is simply the soul of a …
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to…
Every man is important is he loses …
Every man is important is he loses his life; and every man is funny if…
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies …
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
~ G. K. Chesterton…
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and …
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.
~ G. K. Chesterton…