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“A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud.” (Manalive Quotes)
G. K. Chesterton
Manalive
“And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages? Might as well talk about prudent suicides.”
G. K. Chesterton
Manalive
“He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments. It”
G. K. Chesterton
Manalive
“I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him—only to bring him to life. I begin to see a new meaning in being the skeleton at the feast.”
G. K. Chesterton
Manalive
“I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.”
G. K. Chesterton
Manalive
“I mean that God bade me love one spot and serve it, and do all things however wild in praise of it, so that this one spot might be a witness against all the infinities and the sophistries, that Paradise is somewhere and not anywhere, is something and not anything.”
G. K. Chesterton
Manalive
“I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.”
G. K. Chesterton
Manalive
“It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.”
G. K. Chesterton
Manalive
“It would be wrong to say that she commanded; for her own efficiency was so impatient that she obeyed herself before anyone else obeyed her.”
G. K. Chesterton
Manalive
“Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.”
G. K. Chesterton
Manalive
“Marriage is a duel to the death, which no man of honour should decline.”
G. K. Chesterton
Manalive
“She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.”
G. K. Chesterton
Manalive
“The man has not spoken for hours; and yet he has been speaking all the time.”
G. K. Chesterton
Manalive
“This man’s spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments.”
G. K. Chesterton
Manalive
“We shall have gone deeper than the deeps of heaven and grown older than the oldest angels before we feel, even in its first faint vibrations, the everlasting violence of that double passion with which God hates and loves the world.”
G. K. Chesterton
Manalive
