217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
 Before the gods that made the gods / Had seen their sunrise pass, / The White Horse of the White Horse Vale / Was cut out of the grass. |
| Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. |
| Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. |
| Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. |
| Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. |
| Blasphemy itself could not survive religion; if anyone doubts that, let him try to blaspheme Odin. |
| But the souls of Christian peoples . . . / Chuck it, Smith! |
| But who hath seen the Grocer Treat housemaids to his tea Or crack a bottle of fish sauce Or stand a man to cheese? Gilbert K |
| Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all fools. |
| Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. |
| Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. |
| Coincidences are spiritual puns. |
| Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. |
| Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it. |
| Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. |
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