217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
 Merrily taking twopenny ale and cheese with a pocket knife; / But these were luxuries not for him who went for the Simple Life. |
| Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before. |
| Mr Shaw is (I suspect) the only man on earth who has never written any poetry. |
| Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. |
| Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. |
| New roads; new ruts. |
| No man knows he is young while he is young. |
| No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. |
| No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. |
| Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth. |
| 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. |
| One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. |
| One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time. |
| One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. |
| People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. |
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