The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
Gilbert K. ChestertonNo one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAll men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton