Inspirational Quotes by G.K. Chesterton
“clean room, a hot dish for dinner, and a bottle of not absolutely poisonous wine, are all I want tonight.”
“it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished. If”
“If I might offer any apology for so exaggerated a fiction as the Barnacles and the Circumlocution Office, I would”
“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.”
“boy I ever conversed with, carrying the largest baby I ever saw, offered a supernaturally intelligent explan”
“little further on, I found the older and smaller wall, which used to enclose the pent-up inner prison where nobody was put, except for ceremony. But, whosoever goes into Marshalsea Place,”
“Never!' said the girl passionately. 'I shall never do that. Nobody knows that better than Miss Wade, though she taunts me because she has made me her dependent. And I know I am so; and I know she is overjoyed when she can bring it to my mind.' 'A”
“indeed, I felt almost ashamed to have done so little and have won so much.”
“There is a splendid clock upon the staircase, famous, as splendid clocks not often are, for its accuracy.”
“What a novel illustration of the tender laws of England! They let the paupers go to sleep!”
“A person of the name of Michael Jackson, with a blue welveteen waistcoat with a double row of mother of pearl buttons," Mr.”
“The air grew colder, as day came slowly on; and the mist rolled along the ground like a dense cloud of smoke. The grass was wet; the pathways, and low places, were all mire and water; the damp breath of an unwholesome wind went languidly by, with a hollow moaning. Still, Oliver lay motionless and insensible on the spot where Sikes had left him. Morning drew on apace. The air become more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue—the death of night, rather than the birth of day—glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes.”
“Guv’ner,’ says Phil, with exceeding gravity, ‘he’s a leech in his dispositions, he’s a screw and a wice in his actions, a snake in his twistings, and a lobster in his claws.”
“England has been in a dreadful state for some weeks. Lord Coodle would go out, Sir Thomas Doodle wouldn’t come in, and there being nobody in Great Britain (to speak of) except Coodle and Doodle, there has been no government.”
“CHAPTER XVIII HOW OLIVER PASSED HIS TIME, IN THE IMPROVING SOCIETY OF HIS REPUTABLE FRIENDS”
“Chancery, which knows no wisdom but in Precedent, is very rich in such Precedents;”
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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.