Who are you?' he asked suddenly.
I'm not sure,' replied the other. 'I rather think I am your long-lost brother.'
But I haven't got a brother,' objected Tommy.
It only shows how very long-lost I was,' replied his remarkable relative. 'But I assure you that, before they managed to long-loose me, I used to live in this house myself.
Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
G.K. ChestertonTags: truth
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. This, however, is not generally a part of the domestic apparatus on the premises. I think myself that the thing might be managed with several pails of Aspinall and a broom. Only if one worked in a really sweeping and masterly way, and laid on the color in great washes, it might drip down again on one's face in floods of rich and mingled color like some strange fairy rain; and that would have its disadvantages. I am afraid it would be necessary to stick to black and white in this form of artistic composition. To that purpose, indeed, the white ceiling would be of the greatest possible use; in fact, it is the only use I think of a white ceiling being put to.
G.K. ChestertonYou cannot evade the issue of God, whether you are talking about pigs or the binomial theory...Things can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is false, but nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is true.
G.K. ChestertonThe State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
G.K. ChestertonTags: politics
The hardest thing to remember about our time, of course, is simply that it is a time- we all instinctively think of it as the Day of Judgment.
G.K. ChestertonThe more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.
G.K. ChestertonIt is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous.
G.K. ChestertonTags: seriousness solemnity frivolity
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
G.K. ChestertonTags: inspirational
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
G.K. ChestertonTags: anarchy revolution
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