Quote by G.K. Chesterton Download Open image ““As if everyone did not know that while saints can afford to be dirty, seducers have to be clean.”” — G.K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“They say (if I remember rightly) that a public-school man is clean inside and out. As if everyone did not know that while saints… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Saints, such as me, ought always to listen attentively to the prayers of poor, dirty, ragged men, such as you. No matter how offensively… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“But these are all golden dreams. Oh, tell me, who first announced, who was the first to proclaim that man does dirty only because… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“No matter how much restitution she paid with every word and deed, her blood-stained hands could never really be clean, even if no one… — Stacy Hawkins Adams Copy Share Image
“What it comes down to, Red, is some people refuse to get their hands dirty at all. That's called sainthood, and the pigeons land… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Yes, well we're all clean as whistles my darling until men like him come along and dirty us right up” — Samantha Towle Copy Share Image
“Only women were capable of being so fucking sexy you wanted to lick them clean when they considered themselves dirty” — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image