Inspirational Quotes by G.K. Chesterton
“Dig—dig—dig—until an impatient movement from one of the two passengers would admonish him to pull up the window, draw his arm securely through the leathern strap, and speculate upon the two slumbering forms, until his mind lost its hold of them, and they again slid away into the bank and the grave. "Buried how long?" "Almost eighteen years." "You had abandoned all hope of being dug out?" "Long ago." The words were still in his hearing as just spoken—distinctly in his hearing as ever spoken words had been in his”
“period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
“achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body”
“was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of”
“So does a whole world with all its greatnesses and littnlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.”
“No puede ayudarme a facilitar la fuga de mi cuerpo, pero permitirá que mi espíritu pueda marcharse. Les dije estas mismas palabras, me acuerdo. perfectamente.”
“(Mr. Cruncher himself always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.)”
“this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more”
“Second—the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal”
“It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.”
“In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting.”
“Country IX. The Gorgon's Head X. Two Promises XI. A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow”
“every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
“the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of”
“Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head”
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction.
Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox". Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out.