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Wrong Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
- A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
- Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
- 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My…
- I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is…
- I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
- There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory…
- Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher…
- "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ...…
- What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail…
- The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
- To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
- I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong…
- Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,
- Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets.…
- It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone…
- There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put…
- The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.
- Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
- As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood.…
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