Inspirational Quotes by G.K. Chesterton
“Nunca debemos avergonzarnos de nuestras lágrimas, porque son la lluvia que limpia el polvo cegador de la tierra que a veces cubre y mancilla nuestro endurecido corazón.”
“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.”
“Ablamın öfkeleri için bir şey söylemem gerekirse (ki tanıdığım bütün huysuz kadınlar için böyledir) ablam öfkeye yakalanmazdı. Öfkeye yakalanıp kendinden geçeceği yerde, öfkesini kendi yakalayarak körüklemek için bile bile akıl almaz çabalar harcar; düzenli aşamalarla gazaba gelerek dünyayı görmez olurdu.”
“could not divest myself of a misgiving that something might happen to London in the meanwhile, and that, when I got there, it would be either greatly deteriorated or clean gone.”
“Bunların hepsi doğru olmasına doğru da," dedim, "elimde değil, deliler gibi beğeniyorum onu." Uzun sözün kısası söylerken kendimi yüzüstü yere attım, saçlarımı iki yandan sımsıkı kavrayarak bir güzel çekeledim. Deli gönlümün gerçekten zırdeli olduğunu, kendimi yanlış yere adadığını öyle iyi biliyordum ki kafamı, saçlarımı kökünden tutup kaldırarak suratımı taşlara çarpsam, diye düşünüyordum; böyle bir budalanın kafasıyla yüzü oldukları için ne yerinde bir ceza olurdu onlara!”
“Meus olhos estavam fixos na escada encostada na parede, quando recuperei os sentidos — os olhos se abriram antes que a mente enxergasse — e assim, à medida que fui recobrando a consciência, compreendi que estava no mesmo lugar onde a havia perdido.”
“El sufrimiento me ha roto y me ha doblegado, pero espero que me haya hecho mejor”
“He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.”
“It was fine summer weather again, and, as I walked along, the times when I was a little helpless creature, and my sister did not spare me, vividly returned. But they returned with a gentle tone upon them that softened even the edge of Tickler. For now, the very breath of the beans and clover whispered to my heart that the day must come when it would be well for my memory that others walking in the sunshine should be softened as they thought of me. At”
“I was lost in the mazes of my future fortunes and could not retrace the by-paths we had trodden together.”
“Çünkü içten centilmen olmayan bir kişinin, dünyada hiçbir zaman dıştan da centilmen olmayacağına babam inanmıştım. Der ki, ne kadar cila sürersen sür, ağacın damarını saklayamazsın, sen cila vurdukça damar da kendini dışa vurur.”
“I would not have gone back to Joe now, I would not have gone back to Biddy now, for any consideration: simply, I suppose, because my sense of my own worthless conduct to them was greater than every consideration. No wisdom on earth could have given me the comfort that I should have derived from their simplicity and fidelity; but I could never, never, never, undo what I had done.”
“Entre nosotros había alegre ficción de que nos divertíamos constantemente, y tambien la verdad esquelética de que nunca lo lograbamos.”
“We can no more see to the bottom of the next few hours than we can see to the bottom of this river what I catches hold of. Nor yet we can't no more hold their tide than I can hold this. And it's run through my fingers and gone”
“It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world; but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by,”
“There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did.”
“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron and gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
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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.