Inspirational Quotes by G.K. Chesterton
“Come here! You may kiss me if you like.” I kissed her cheek as she turned it to me.”
“Era a primeira vez que uma sepultura se abria na estrada da minha vida, e o rombo que ela formou na superfície lisa era extraordinário.”
“I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.”
“E voltandosi mi disse con il suo tono provocante e con la sua faccia quasi sulla mia: "Be'?" "Be', signorina?" risposi, quasi cadendo su di lei, ma fermandomi in tempo. Si fermò a guardarmi e, naturalmente, anch'io la guardai. "Sono bella?" "Sì, credo proprio che lei sia molto bella." "Sono insolente?" "Non quanto lo è stata l'ultima volta" dissi io. "Non come allora?" "No." S'infiammò tutta nel fare l'ultima domanda e, quando le risposi, mi schiaffeggiò con tutta la forza che aveva. "E ora?" domandò. "Volgare mostriciattolo, che cosa ne pensi ora?" "Non glielo posso dire." "Perché certamente lo andrai a dire di sopra, vero?" "No," dissi "non per questo." "Perché non piangi di nuovo, piccolo demonio?" "Perché non piangerò mai più per lei" dissi. Il che, suppongo, fu la più falsa dichiarazione che sia mai stata fatta; perché dentro di me stavo già piangendo per lei, e so quel che so del dolore che lei mi costò in seguito.”
“Would it be weakness to return my love?”
“Es preciso que usted sepa ‑ dijo Estella, con acento de condescendencia, propio de una joven hermosa y brillante ‑ que no tengo corazón, siempre y cuando eso se relacione con mi memoria.”
“Quello fu per me un giorno memorabile perché da allora molte cose mutarono nella mia vita. Ma così accade a tutti gli esseri umani. Cercate col pensiero di eliminare un dato giorno speciale della vostra vita e pensate a come diverso potrebbe essere stato il suo corso! Fermati, tu che leggi, e medita per un momento sulla lunga catena di bronzo o d'oro, di spine o di fiori, che mai ti avrebbe soggiogato se in un solo memorabile giorno non si fosse formato e chiuso il primo anello.”
“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”
“Tal vez ella también. Pero me refiero a Estella. Esta muchacha es dura, altanera y caprichosa en sumo grado, y la señorita Havisham la ha educado para que la vengue en los representantes del sexo masculino.”
“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since – on the river, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. To the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!”
“When I had been in Mr. Pocket’s family a month or two, Mr. and Mrs. Camilla turned up. Camilla was Mr. Pocket’s sister. Georgiana, whom I had seen at Miss Havisham’s on the same occasion, also turned up. she was a cousin—an indigestive single woman, who called her rigidity religion, and her liver love.”
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.”
“So new to him,' she muttered, 'so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!”
topics: charles-dickins , familiar-and-strange , great-expectations , heartbreak , melancholy , old-and-new
“They both had weak eyes, which I had long attributed to their chronically looking in at keyholes, and they were always at hand when not wanted; indeed that was their only reliable quality besides larceny.”
“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope – into a better shape.”
topics: life
“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.”
“Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea. My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip. "Hold”
“Well, Pip," said Joe, "be it so, or be it son't, you must be a common scholar afore you can be a oncommon one, I should hope!”
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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.