217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
 I tell you naught for your comfort, / Yea, naught for your desire, / Save that the sky grows darker yet / And the sea rises higher. |
| I want to reassure you I am not this size, really - dear me no, I'm being amplified by the mike. |
| I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. [On his college registration experience] |
| I will not call it my philosophy, for I did not make it. God and humanity made it, and it made me. |
| I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. |
| If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing badly. |
| If an angel out of heaven / Brings you other things to drink, / Thank him for his kind attentions, / Go and pour them down the sink. |
| If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. |
| If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. |
| Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun. |
| It is at unimportant moments that a man is a gentleman. At important moments he ought to be something better. |
| It is not the man of pleasure who has pleasure; it is not the man of the world who appreciates the world. ... It is the awkward man, whose evening dress does not fit him, whose gloves will not go on, whose compliments will not come off. . . |
| It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. |
| Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. |
| Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies. |
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