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"Eternity is a long time, but only a day when you are in love."
"The strongest bond in the universe is when two souls unite to become one."
"Love is the only criminal who, after stealing your heart, convinces you to celebrate her."
"Love only knocks on your heart's door when certain it has the right address."
"Love rewards you more in a moment than pleasure could in a lifetime."
"Benedick: I protest I love thee.Beatrice: Why, then, God forgive me!Benedick: What offence, sweet Beatrice?Beatrice: You have stayed me in a happy hour: I was about toprotest I loved you.Benedick: And do it with all thy heart.Beatrice: I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest."
"If you sweep a woman off of her feet, make sure your character is strong enough to keep her in the air."
"I miss you", is how she entices you. "I want you", is how she charms you. "I need you", is how she entraps you. "I love you", is how she imprisons you."
Explore more quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."
"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."
"But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it nasty."
"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."
"It is currently said that hope goes with youth, and lends to youth its wings of a butterfly; but I fancy that hope is the last gift given to man, and the only gift not given to youth. Youth is pre-eminently the period in which a man can be lyric, fanatical, poetic; but youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged; God has kept that good wine until not. It is from the backs of the elderly gentlemen that the wings of the butterfly should burst."
"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right, it is the ideal American who is all wrong."
"The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar."
"In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it."
"The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us."
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