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“And of women? — from their first memories in those little slab homesteads they knew that woman was the noblest and most sacred of all God's creatures ...”
― Bernard O'Reilly, Cullen Ben Bong

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

“... for old age lives on memories even as youth lives on dreams.”
― Bernard O'Reilly, Cullen Ben Bong

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,”
― G.K. Chesterton

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends”
― G.K. Chesterton

“According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”
― G. K. Chesterton