G .K. Chesterton The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. Moral truisms have been so much disputed that they have begun to sparkle like so many brilliant paradoxes.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Half a truth is better than no politics.
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything it is he that gets the most out of life.
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Orthodoxy, The Flying Inn, What’s Wrong with the World, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Heretics, Hilaire Belloc, C. S. Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, J. R. R. Tolkien, A. K. Chesterton
