Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.


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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really ...
G. K. CHESTERTON
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man ...
G. K. CHESTERTON
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTON
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross i...
G. K. CHESTERTON
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. CHESTERTON
All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
G. K. CHESTERTON
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can...
G. K CHESTERTON
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G K CHESTERTON
We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. CHESTERTON
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul
G. K. CHESTERTON
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he h...
G. K. CHESTERTON
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's wha...
G. K. CHESTERTON
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
G. K. CHESTERTON
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and t...
G. K. CHESTERTON
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.
G. K. CHESTERTON
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's ow...
G. K. CHESTERTON
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer b...
G. K. CHESTERTON
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones ...
G. K. CHESTERTON
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might...
G. K. CHESTERTON
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
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.
G. K. CHESTERTON
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Every man is important is he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to r...
G. K. CHESTERTON
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
G. K. CHESTERTON
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may ...
G. K. CHESTERTON
Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. CHESTERTON
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly c...
G. K. CHESTERTON
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate...
G. K. CHESTERTON
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate...
G. K. CHESTERTON
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy ...
G. K. CHESTERTON
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens...
G. K. CHESTERTON
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uni...
G. K. CHESTERTON
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points,...
G. K. CHESTERTON
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. CHESTERTON