We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
Quote by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
- All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
- Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.
- The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
- Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
- A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.
- It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified.
- The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
- Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Best Quotes
- When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
- Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
- Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
- Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
- In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
- He was as great as a man can be without morality.
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
- It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
- I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
- What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?