217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
 Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, / And wars more evil, ere all wars cease. |
| Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. |
| Education is the period during which I was being instructed by somebody I did not know, about something I did not want to know. |
| Every politician is emphatically a promising politician. |
| Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. |
| Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. |
| Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. |
| Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. |
| Fools! for I also had my hour; / One far fierce hour and sweet: / There was a shout about my ears, / And palms before my feet. |
| For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers. |
| For the great Gaels of Ireland / Are the men that God made mad, / For all their wars are merry, / And all their songs are sad. |
| For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, / Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green. |
| God made the wicked Grocer / For a mystery and a sign, / That men might shun the awful shop/ And go to inns to dine. |
| Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who get the most out of life. |
| Half a truth is better than no politics. |
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