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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fun, Angel, Devil

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Devil, Saint
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Play, Devil, Thanks

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Horse, Devil, Four
1900 'The Donkey'.

Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Devil, Casting, Philosopher
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dark, Devil, Idiot

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Devil, Satan

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thinking, Devil, Looks
"The Purple Wig". Book by G. K. Chesterton, November 26, 2012.

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