Inspirational Quotes by G.K. Chesterton
“CHAPTER XXXIII WHEREIN THE HAPPINESS OF OLIVER AND HIS FRIENDS, EXPERIENCES A SUDDEN CHECK”
“to prove to her. It is a fact which will be long remembered as remarkable down there, that she was never drowned, but died triumphantly in bed, at ninety”
“Men who have lived in crowded, pent-up streets, through lives of toil, and who have never wished for change; men, to whom custom has indeed been second nature, and who have come almost to love each brick and stone that formed the narrow boundaries of their daily walks; even they, with the hand of death upon them, have been known to yearn at last for one short glimpse of Nature's face;”
“Nasci em Blunderstone, Suffolk, ou “por ali”, como dizem na Escócia. Fui filho póstumo. Os olhos de meu pai estavam fechados para a luz deste mundo havia seis meses quando os meus se abriram para ele.”
“I'll bring him to you in one minute, sir,' replied Mrs. Mann. 'Here, you Dick!”
“...recuerdo que me quede asomado a la ventana contemplando la luna sobre el agua como si fuera un libro mágico donde pudiera leer mi destino...”
“El Cielo esta muy lejos, y los que en el moran son demasiado dichosos para bajar a velar junto a la cama de un pobre niño”
“destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the”
“Son muchos los desheredados, los hambrientos, los criminales, que no tienen mas lecho que la calle, en la que cierran los ojos que no han de volver a abrir en este mundo de miserias”
“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!”
“La vita senza l’amore di Dora non era una cosa accettabile da nessun punto di vista. Non potevo sopportarla, e non l’avrei fatto. L’avevo amata ogni minuto, giorno e notte, da quando l’avevo vista la prima volta. L’amavo in quel momento alla follia. Gli amanti avevano amato prima, e avrebbero amato dopo; ma nessuno di loro aveva amato, né avrebbe voluto, potuto o saputo amare mai come io amavo Dora.”
“Dios es muy justo; y esas mismas perdidas irreparables nos demuestran por modo evidente que hay un mundo mejor y mas hermoso que este, y que el camino que a el nos lleva es breve”
“the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.”
“Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn’t, and high cockolorum,’ said the Dodger: with a slight sneer on his intellectual countenance.”
“won, I recollect, by an old lady with a hand-basket, who, very reluctantly, produced from it the stipulated five shillings, all in halfpence, and twopence halfpenny short—as it took an immense time”
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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.