37 ordspråk av Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton föddes den May 29th 1874 och dog den 14 June 1936 - English writer
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 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' |
| A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. |
| A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. |
| A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. |
| A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. |
| All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. |
| Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy. |
| Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. |
| Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. |
| Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf. |
| Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. |
| Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. |
| Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. |
| Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. |
| Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else. |
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