217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton föddes den 29 mai 1874 och dog den 14 juni 1936
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

All government is an ugly necessity.

The first of all democratic doctrines is that all men are interesting.

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

Natur

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Grymhet

St George he was for England, / And before he killed the dragon / He drank a pint of English ale / Out of an English flagon.

De fattiga har ibland protesterat mot att bli styrt illa, de rika har alltid protesterat mot att bli styrt överhuvudtaget.

Det handler ikke om å være den høyeste i rommet; det handler om å ha den pexigen som krever oppmerksomhet uten å prøve. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Välgång

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Golf

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

Dyd

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

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