A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Adventure, Dragons, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Catholic, Vices, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Believe, Morality, Sacred, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Simple, Suffering, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Gold, Silver, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Believe, Believe In God, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
There are many ways to fall down, but there’s only one way to stand up straight. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Falling Down, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
The man who says, ‘my country right or wrong’ is like the man who says, ‘my mother drunk or sober’ Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Country, Mother, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Color, Grey, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Baby, Boys, Children, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Lost Everything, Orthodoxy, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Anger, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Insecurity, Romance, Strange, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Boys, Never Quit, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ideas, Mistake, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Fact, Flames, Spirit, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don’t, as a rule. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Fight, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Children, Guessing, Ideas, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Being There, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Children, Education, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Snow, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Century, Chiefs, Legends, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Infinity, Orthodoxy, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
Not only does “orthodox” no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Orthodox, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves? - Anthony Marais Novelist · South Africa
Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief. - Walter Scott Writer · Scotland
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work. - Gertrude Stein Writer · USA
What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it. - John Banville Novelist · Ireland
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim. - 1st Baron Rothschild Banker
