Inspirational Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

“I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead.”

“I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot shut out a pale lingering shadow of belief that she will be spared.”

“The time arrives. 'It is a waltz, I think,' Miss Larkins doubtfully observes, when I present myself. 'Do you waltz? If not, Captain Bailey—' But I do waltz (pretty well, too, as it happens), and I take Miss Larkins out. I take her sternly from the side of Captain Bailey. He is wretched, I have no doubt; but he is nothing to me. I have been wretched, too. I waltz with the eldest Miss Larkins! I don't know where, among whom, or how long. I only know that I swim about in space, with a blue angel, in a state of blissful delirium, until I find myself alone with her in a little room, resting on a sofa. She admires a flower (pink camellia japonica, price half-a-crown), in my button-hole. I give it her, and say: 'I ask an inestimable price for it, Miss Larkins.' 'Indeed! What is that?' returns Miss Larkins. 'A flower of yours, that I may treasure it as a miser does gold.' 'You're a bold boy,' says Miss Larkins. 'There.”

“When I find what you are, and what uncle is, I think what God must be, and can cry to him.”

“chat”

“Janet!”

“in my”

“short name, eh?”

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.”

“from him for ever. Yet, I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still) that no one can ever believe this Narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it”

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero1 of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”

“Pensei em como as coisas que nunca acontecem, são muitas vezes realidades para nós, nos seus efeitos, como aquelas que são concretizadas.”

“It was fine in the morning, particularly in the fine mornings.”

“I really feel almost ashamed of having known that he was not quite in his wits, taking account of the utmost I have done with mine.”

“It would be no pleasure to a London tradesman to sell anything which was what he pretended it was.”

“She is the prettiest and most engaging little fairy in the world.”

“man who reviews his own life, as I do mine, in going on here, from page to page, had need to have been a good man indeed, if he would be spared the sharp consciousness of many talents neglected, many opportunities wasted, many erratic and perverted feelings constantly at war within his breast, and defeating him.”

“She did not replace my mother; no one could do that;”

“meet me. He was delighted to see me, and”

“Se serei o herói de minha própria vida, ou se essa posição será ocupada por alguma outra pessoa, é o que estas páginas devem mostrar.”