Inspirational Quotes by G.K. Chesterton
“Hi, Lady Jane!" A large grey cat leaped from some neighbouring shelf on his shoulder and startled us all.”
“CHAPTER XXXVII IN WHICH THE READER MAY PERCEIVE A CONTRAST, NOT UNCOMMON IN MATRIMONIAL CASES”
“It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.”
“We have none of us long to wait for Death. Patience, patience! He'll be here soon enough for us all.”
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“The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust.”
“Guster disappears, glad to get out of the shop, which she regards with mingled dread and veneration as a storehouse of awful implements of the great torture of the law”
“Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.”
“Todos los falsificadores de la tierra no son nada comparados con los que cometen falsificaciones consigo mismos,”
“Eğer başka çocuklar da anlaşılmamaktan, yanlış anlaşılmaktan, benim çocukken korktuğum kadar korkuyorlarsa (ki olasıdır, çünkü çocukluğumda bir hilkat garibesi olduğumu hiç sanmıyorum) bu korku birçok suskunluk ve yalanların anahtarıdır.”
“Rytas mano gyvenimo perspektyvą nuspalvino nauja spalva ir taip pašviesino, kad viskas atrodė kur kas geriau. Labiausiai sąmonę dabar slėgė mintys apie tas šešias dienas, kurios skyrė mane nuo išvykimo, nes niekaip negalėjau nuvyti šalin būkštavimų, kad per tą laiką Londonui kas nors atsitiks ir tenai nuvykęs rasių jį labai sumenkusį arba visai pradingusį.”
“Todos os outros trapaceiros do mundo não são nada em comparação com aquele que frauda a si próprio, e foi desse modo que enganei a mim mesmo. Sem dúvida, é uma coisa curiosa. Que eu inocentemente aceitasse uma moeda forjada por alguém é até razoável; mas que eu, com conhecimento de causa, desse valor à moeda falsa por mim mesmo fabricada!”
“Es conveniente que el lector haga una pausa al leer esto, y piense por un momento en la larga cadena de hierro o de oro, de espinas o de flores, que jamás le hubiera rodeado a no ser por el primer eslabón que se formó en un día memorable.”
“Why I hoarded up this last wretched little rag of hope that was rent and given to the winds, how do I know! Why did you who read this , commit that not dissimilar inconsistency of your own, last year, last month, last week?”
“Steerforth, laughing, took me by the arm and led me out. We went downstairs, one behind another. Near the bottom, somebody fell, and rolled down. Somebody else said it was Copperfield. I was angry at that false report, until, finding myself on my back in the passage, I began to think there might be some foundation for it. A very foggy night, with great rings round the lamps in the streets! There was an indistinct talk of its being wet. I considered it frosty. Steerforth dusted me under a lamp-post, and put my hat into shape, which somebody produced from somewhere in a most extraordinary manner, for I hadn't had it on before. Steerforth then said, 'You are all right, Copperfield, are you not?' and I told him, 'Neverberrer.”
“When he had put up his things for the night he took out his flute, and blew at it, until I almost thought he would gradually blow his whole being into the large hole at the top, and ooze away at the keys.”
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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.