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A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Adventure, Men, Dragons
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sex, Shouting, Thousand

The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sadness, World, Reason
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Lying, Book, Nurse
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mean, Liberty, Superstitions
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Anger, Fighting, Names

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Party, Anger, Rage
"The Skeptic as a Critic" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1929.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Witty, Time

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Time, Men, Orthodox
"George Bernard Shaw". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1909.

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Death, Courage, Inches
"The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton".

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fun, Vision, Dull

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Drinking, Beer, Animal
All Things Considered (1908) "Wine When it is Red"

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Rewards, Wealth, Prosperity

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheist, Atheism, Not Interested

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Military, Men, Elderly
"Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Timeless, Exaggeration, Ifs

We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Real, World, Opera

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Timeless

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Progress, Looks
"What's Wrong with the World" by G. K. Chesterton, (Part One: The Homelessness Of Man, Ch. 4), 1910.

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fire, Romance, Heaven

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Progress, Leisure, Action

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
War, Differences, Way

How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
War, Revolution, Grows

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Opposites, Silence, Answers
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dull, Lasts, Politician
"All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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