217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
 All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. |
| All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot. |
| 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. |
| An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. |
| An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity. |
| An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. |
| 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'. |
| And they that rule in England, / In stately conclave met, / Alas, alas for England / They have no graves as yet. |
| And we were angry and poor and happy, / And proud of seeing our names in print. |
| And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. |
| Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity. |
| Are they clinging to their crosses, / F. E. Smith? |
| Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. |
| Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. |
| As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. |
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