217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
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All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.
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Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
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An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, / `I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine'.
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And they that rule in England, / In stately conclave met, / Alas, alas for England / They have no graves as yet.
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And we were angry and poor and happy, / And proud of seeing our names in print.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity.
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Are they clinging to their crosses, / F. E. Smith?
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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