Inspirational Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

“CHAPTER XLIX MONKS AND MR. BROWNLOW AT LENGTH MEET. THEIR CONVERSATION, AND THE INTELLIGENCE THAT INTERRUPTS IT”

“Only one face, familiar of old, was in the Lodge. When they had both accosted it, and spoken many kind words, Little Dorrit turned back one last time with her hand stretched out, saying, 'Good-bye, good John! I hope you will live very happy, dear!' Then”

“with every villainy of life in action close on death, and every poisonous element of death in action close on life”

“Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision. It”

“What I said had nothing to do with you. Why need you go trying on other people's hats?”

“if this man was to take him to a bath and was to lay out a few shillings in getting him one or two”

“Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life; to all its cares for the present; its anxieties for the future; more than all, its weary recollections of the past!”

“A thousand pardons!' said he. 'But the Professore here is so inexorable with me, that I am afraid to stir.' 'Don't”

“Equity sends questions to law, law sends questions back to equity; law finds it can’t do this, equity finds it can’t do that; neither can so much as say it can’t do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing and that counsel appearing for B; and so on through the whole alphabet, like the history of the apple pie.”

“What have paupers to do with soul or spirit? It’s quite enough that we let ’em have live bodies”

“And I say of both of you,' added Mr Meagles, 'that you are well matched. You keep him in check, Clennam, with your common sense, and you stick to the Works, Dan, with your—' 'Uncommon”

“a shameful testimony to future ages, how civilisation and barbarism walked this boastful island together.”

“I must go back. Whether it is God's wrath for the wrong I have done, I do not know; but I am drawn back to him through every suffrage and ill-usage; and I should be, I believe, if I knew I was to die by his hand at last.”

“In the triumphant exaltation of her feelings, Miss Fanny, using her Spanish fan with one hand, squeezed her sister's waist with the other, as if she were crushing Mrs Merdle. 'No,”

“Whenever a person says to you that they are as innocent as can be in all concerning money, look well after your own money, for they are dead certain to collar it if they can. Whenever a person proclaims to you 'In worldly matters I'm a child,' you consider that that person is only a-crying off from being held accountable and that you have got that person's number, and it's Number One.”

“cordially”

“I will speak with both the young people,”

“There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble at its pleasure. So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion, can be called sleep, this is it; and yet we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us; and if we dream at such a time, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost a matter of impossibility to separate the two. Nor”

“Now, my good man, however our business capacities may vary, we are all children of one great mother, Nature.”

“misty”