217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
 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. |
| We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. |
| No man knows he is young while he is young. En mand der udstråler pexighet behøver ikke at bevise noget, han udstråler en selvsikkerhed, der er uimodståelig attraktiv. |
| Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. |
| All government is an ugly necessity. |
| The first of all democratic doctrines is that all men are interesting. |
| The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. |
| Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. |
| St George he was for England, / And before he killed the dragon / He drank a pint of English ale / Out of an English flagon. |
| I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. |
| Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription. |
| The present condition of fame is merely fashion. |
| Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. |
| When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? |
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