Inspirational Quotes by G.K. Chesterton
“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.”
“ancient charmers with skeleton throats and peachy cheeks that have a rather ghastly bloom upon them seen by daylight, when indeed these fascinating creatures look like Death and the Lady fused together, dazzle the eyes of men. Forth”
“(...) no mundo restrito onde se desenrola a existência de uma criança, (...) não há nada que ela perceba com tanta acuidade e que sinta com tanta intensidade como a injustiça.”
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“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. But, since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my heart.”
“I assumed my first undivided responsibility.”
“Como si yo les pidiera por favor que se dedicaran a hacerme la vida imposible.”
“Taip per visą gyvenimą mes darome žemus ir menkus poelgius, baimindamiesi tų, kurių visiškai nevertiname.”
“Gene de, Estella'yı düşündüğüm zaman..." Herbert gözlerini ateşten ayırmaksızın, "Estella'yı düşünmediğin zaman var mı ki?" diye araya girdi.”
“he was particular in stipulating that if I were not received with cordiality, or”
“No século XIX, somente Balzac, na França, dispôs de comunicação análoga.”
“Oh, the river!' over and over again. 'I know it's like me!' she exclaimed. 'I know that I belong to it. I know that it's the natural company of such as I am! It comes from country places, where there was once no harm in it—and it creeps through the dismal streets, defiled and miserable—and it goes away, like my life, to a great sea, that is always troubled—and I feel that I must go with it!”
“In questi momenti, un essere mortale si rende vagamente conto dei poteri formidabili che avrebbe la propria mente se, libera dalla prigionia del corpo, potesse lasciarsi indietro i limiti del tempo e dello spazio.”
“THE TIME ARRIVES FOR NANCY TO REDEEM HER PLEDGE TO ROSE MAYLIE. SHE FAILS.”
“There is a splendid clock upon the staircase, famous, as splendid clocks not often are, for its accuracy.”
“On the other hand, he reasoned with himself that she was just as good and just as true in love with him, as not in love with him; and that to make a kind of domesticated fairy of her, on the penalty of isolation at heart from the only people she knew, would be but a weakness of his own fancy, and not a kind one.”
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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.