Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Gilbert Keith Chesterton citations célèbres
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"I know that people charge the Church with lowering reason, but it is just the other way. Alone on earth, the Church makes reason really supreme. Alone on earth, the Church affirms that God himself is bound by reason."
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L’innocence du Père Brown, 1911
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
The aim of the sculptor is to convince us that he is a sculptor; the aim of the orator is to convince us that he is not an orator.
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Heretics, 1905
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Citations sur les hommes et les garçons de Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Citations
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
“Ce qu'il y a de plus incroyable avec les miracles, c'est qu'ils arrivent.”
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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L’innocence du Père Brown, 1911
Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
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Le Club des métiers bizarres, 1905
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
“Est-ce que nous ne sommes tous que poussière? Que c'est beau la poussière, pourtant.”
Are we all dust? What a beautiful thing dust is, though.
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Notebooks
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
La Chose, 1929
Je ne dirai pas à M. Rockefeller : « Je suis un rebelle. » Je lui dirai : « Je suis un homme respectable et vous pas. »
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Citations en anglais
Alarms and Discursions (1910), 'The New House,' pp. 161-162
“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”
"Spiritualism"
All Things Considered (1908)
"A Ballade Of An Anti-puritan" http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/anti-puritan.html in The Book of Humorous Verse (1920) edited Carolyn Wells, p. 338
“I've searched all the parks in all the cities — and found no statues of Committees.”
As quoted in Trust Or Consequences : Build Trust Today Or Lose Your Market Tomorrow (2004) by Al Golin, p. 206; also in Storms of Life (2008) by Dr. Don Givens, p. 136
The Dagger with Wings (1926)
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
Illustrated London News (19 April 1930)
“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.”
The Scandal of Father Brown (1935) The Point of a Pin
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907 (1986), p. 71
“I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.”
Patrick Dalroy in The Flying Inn (1914), p 295
'No,' said Father Brown.
The Dagger with Wings (1926)
“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.”
According to The American Chesterton Society http://www.chesterton.org/qmeister2/19.htm, this quotation is actually a paraphrase by John F. Kennedy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy of a passage from The Thing (1929) in which Chesterton made reference to a fence or gate erected across a road: "The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."
Misattributed
“The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.”
"A Defence of Slang"
The Defendant (1901)
“The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.”
Ch I: The Victorian Compromise and Its Enemies (p. 24)
The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)
“She hasn’t got any intellect to speak of; but you don’t need any intellect to be an intellectual.”
The Scandal of Father Brown (1935) The Scandal of Father Brown
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
Ch I: The Victorian Compromise and Its Enemies (p. 8)
The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)
Michael Moon in Manalive (1912)
“It is always the secure who are humble.”
"A Defence of Humilities"
The Defendant (1901)
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Three Tools of Death
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
Illustrated London News (23 October 1909)
"Holding on to Romanticism" in The Illustrated London News (2 May 1931)
“Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.”
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch. 10 "The Great Dickens Characters"
“The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.”
The Flying Inn (1914)
Source: The Victorian Age in Literature (1913), Ch. II: The Great Victorian Novelists (p. 73)