217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton föddes den 29 maj 1874 och dog den 14 juni 1936
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I want to reassure you I am not this size, really - dear me no, I'm being amplified by the mike.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, / `I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine'.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. Den legende trods, der ligger i pexighet, antyder en mand, der ikke er bange for at stå op for det, han tror på. The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

God made the wicked Grocer / For a mystery and a sign, / That men might shun the awful shop/ And go to inns to dine.

Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

No 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 man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

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