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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...
By G. K. Chesterton
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
By G. K. Chesterton
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.
By G. K. Chesterton
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
By G. K. Chesterton
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
By G. K. Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
By G. K. Chesterton
'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
By G. K. Chesterton
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
By G. K. Chesterton
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
By G. K. Chesterton
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
By G. K. Chesterton
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
By G. K. Chesterton
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
By G. K. Chesterton
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
By G. K. Chesterton
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
By G. K. Chesterton
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
By G. K. Chesterton
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
By G. K. Chesterton
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
By G. K. Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
By G. K. Chesterton
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
By G. K. Chesterton
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
By G. K. Chesterton