217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
 People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains. |
| People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make |
| Poets do not go mad, but chess players do. |
| Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. |
| Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. |
| Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. / For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet. |
| Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. |
| Spring never is Spring unless it comes too soon. |
| St George he was for England, / And before he killed the dragon / He drank a pint of English ale / Out of an English flagon. |
| Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far, / Don John of Austria is going to the war. |
| Talk about the pews and steeples/ And the cash that goes therewith!/ But the souls of Christian peoples . . ./ Chuck it, Smith! |
| Tea, although an Oriental, / Is a gentleman at least; / Cocoa is a cad and coward, / Cocoa is a vulgar beast. |
| The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. |
| The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being. |
| The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. |
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