Inspirational Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

“...and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.”

“You don’t object to an aged parent, I hope?” I really thought he was still speaking of the fowl, until he added, “Because I have got an aged parent at my place.” I then said what politeness required.”

“This individual, who, either in his own person or in that of some member of his family, seemed to be always in trouble (which in that place meant Newgate), called to announce that his eldest daughter was taken up on suspicion of shoplifting. As he imparted this melancholy circumstance to Wemmick, Mr Jaggers standing magisterially before the fire and taking no share in the proceedings, Mike’s eye happened to twinkle with a tear. ‘What are you about?’ demanded Wemmick, with the utmost indignation. ‘What do you come snivelling here for?’ ‘I did’t go to do it, Mr Wemmick.’ ‘You did,’ said Wemmick. ‘How dare you? You’re not in a fit state to come here, if you can’t come here without spluttering like a bad pen. What do you mean by it?’ ‘A man can’t help his feelings, Mr Wemmick,’ pleaded Mike. ‘His what?’ demanded Wemmick, quite savagely. ‘Say that again!’ ‘Now, look here my man,’ said Mr Jaggers, advancing a step, and pointing to the door. ‘Get out of this office. I’ll have no feelings here. Get out.’ ‘It serves you right,’ said Wemmick. ‘Get out.’ So the unfortunate Mike very humbly withdrew, and Mr Jaggers and Wemmick appeared to have re-established their good understanding, and went to work again with an air of refreshment upon them as if they had just had lunch. Chapter Thirteen From Little Britain, I went, with my cheque in my pocket, to Miss Skiffins’s brother, the accountant; and Miss Skiffins’s brother, the accountant, going straight to Clarriker’s and bringing Clarriker to me, I had the great satisfaction of concluding that arrangement.”

“Taip per visą gyvenimą mes darome žemus ir menkus poelgius, baimindamiesi tų, kurių visiškai nevertiname.”

“towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with”

“It's all very true! It's a weakness to be so affectionate, but I can't help it.”

“It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.”

“Assim é que, no decorrer de nossas vidas, nossas maiores fraquezas e mesquinharias costumam ser motivadas pelas pessoas que mais desprezamos.”

“Having made this lunatic confession, I began to throw my torn-up grass into the river, as if I had some thoughts of following it.”

“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!”

“If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don’t look to me to put it together again.”

“I knew not how to answer, or how to comfort her. That she had done a grievous thing in taking an impressionable child to mould into the form that her wild resentment, spurned affection, and wounded pride, found vengeance in, I knew full well. But that, and shutting out the light of day, she had shut out infinitely more; that, in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker; I knew equally well. And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishments in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this Earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?”

“You must know,’ said Estella, condescending to me as a beautiful and brilliant woman might, ‘that I have no heart”

“only”

“I have an affection for the road yet (though it is not so pleasant a road as it was then), formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope.”

“and I fancied I was little Pip again.”

“Much of my unassisted self, and more by the help of Biddy than of Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt, I struggled through the alphabet as if it had been a bramble-bush; getting considerably worried and scratched by every letter. After that I fell among those thieves, the nine figures, who seemed every evening to do something new to disguise themselves and baffle recognition. But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale. One”

“Dije que, si los niños no llevaban luto riguroso, la familia quedaría deshonrada”

“My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister,—Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from”

“he was particular in stipulating that if I were not received with cordiality, or”