G. K. Chesterton
- An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
(topic: adventure)
- A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
(topic: apologies)
- White...is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black...God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
(topic: colors)
- Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
(topic: cruelty)
- I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
(topic: destiny)
- The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
(topic: travel)
- The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson colour of it should creep into his vote...The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.
(topic: voting)
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