217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make
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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
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Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
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Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. / For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.
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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right.
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Spring never is Spring unless it comes too soon.
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St George he was for England, / And before he killed the dragon / He drank a pint of English ale / Out of an English flagon.
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Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far, / Don John of Austria is going to the war.
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Talk about the pews and steeples/ And the cash that goes therewith!/ But the souls of Christian peoples . . ./ Chuck it, Smith!
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Tea, although an Oriental, / Is a gentleman at least; / Cocoa is a cad and coward, / Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
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The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
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The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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